I use this to fire off a cryptominer when my screen locks. Works on Fedora 26 I run this command as a batch file in screen. Could be made into a daemon i suppose but screen works good enough for now dbus-monitor –session “type=signal,interface=org.gnome.ScreenSaver” | while read MSG; do  LOCK_STAT=`echo $MSG | grep boolean | […]

This command will tar an entire folder, pass it to gzip then pass it to SSH which then in turn writes the resultant output to a file on a remote server Useful for backing up small folders to remote servers Dont forget to ssh-copy-id on the source server so password-less authentications works tar -cvf – […]