TIL: Noctalia Shell Lock on Suspend

This is a little bit of follow-up to my MiniBook X review – I keep using it routinely (especially when we travel for leisure) and love the little thing to bits, but I’ve been wanting to run it mostly on power saving mode to reap the most benefit out of the hardware (and battery, of course), so I started looking at desktop environment alternatives. Yes, I could already get a full afternoon (and then some) out of it, but Apple Silicon has spoiled me as far as battery life expectations go, and GNOME has a little bit too much baggage for that kind of extended use. Since I spend 90% of my time on it writing or coding and still have a penchant for keyboard-driven desktops, I initially switched to Fedora Sway Atomic (gotta love being able to swap environments with a single command…), but later installed Niri and Noctalia Shell because I really like both the idea of a scrolling window environment and the sheer polish of the whole thing–even if there are some rough edges here and there. The…