#!/usr/bin/env python # Shamelessly pasted from: # https://serverfault.com/questions/573379/system-suspend-dbus-upower-signals-are-not-seen from datetime import datetime import dbus import gobject from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop import os def handle_sleep(*args): print "%s PrepareForSleep%s" % (datetime.now().ctime(), args) if len(args)>0 and args[0]: os.system("/buttslock.sh") DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True) # integrate into gobject main loop bus = dbus.SystemBus() # connect to system wide dbus bus.add_signal_receiver( # define the signal to listen to handle_sleep, # callback function 'PrepareForSleep', # signal name 'org.freedesktop.login1.Manager', # interface 'org.freedesktop.login1' # bus name ) loop = gobject.MainLoop() loop.run()