Mine on your Linux desktop when screen is locked
If you just bought a fancy new GPU and want to make the most use of it, why not use its idle time to mine some coins? In this example we will start the miner when the screen locks up using a simple Bash script and Systemd user service.
Bash script
#!/bin/bash
running=false
pid=-1
dbus-monitor --session "type='signal',interface='org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver'" |
while read x; do
case "$x" in
*"boolean true"*)
if [[ $running = false ]] ; then
# Replace POOL_URL, ADDRESS and NAME.
~/Mining/nevermore-miner/ccminer -a x16r -a x16r -o POOL_URL -u ADDRESS -p NAME &
pid=$!
running=true
echo "pid is $pid"
fi;;
*"boolean false"*)
if [[ $running = true && $pid > 0 ]] ; then
echo "killing $pid..."
kill -9 $pid
pid=-1
running=false
fi;;
esac
done
Save the script and make it executable chmod 755 ccrunner.sh.
Create start and enable the user systemd service
[Unit]
Description=Ravencoin (RVN) miner
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=~/Mining/ccrunner.sh
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
Save the service file to ~/.config/systemd/user/ folder.
Start service systemctl --user start ccminer-sandbox.service.
Enable service on login systemctl --user enable ccminer-sandbox.service.