mute microphone when screen is locked

[stolotti]

It would be great to have an option to mute the microphone when the screen is locked

[wbolster]

not having an option but just unconditionally doing this sounds even better. any reason someone might not want this?

[mattiasw]

I have this script that I have set to auto start on login. It silences the speakers and turns the mic off when screensaver activates.

# org.gnome.ScreenSaver for Gnome, org.cinnamon.ScreenSaver for Cinnamon.

dbus-monitor --session "type='signal',interface='org.gnome.ScreenSaver'" |
  while read -r line; do
    case "$line" in 
      *"boolean true"*) amixer sset Master 0%; amixer sset Capture nocap;;
    esac
  done