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[Bug 620693] Re: Screen not locked when turned off

 

I've followed this bug specifically due to natty 11.04 behavior. The
screen does not lock after blank.

gconf settings:

lock > blank_screen is true
lock > use_screensaver_settings is false

The display blanks correctly at the time set in the G-P-M settings.
However, the screen does not lock thereafter.

My workaround, while waiting on this bug, has been to enable the
screensaver and its option to lock the screen. I will then set the
screen to blank at 10 minutes and the screensaver to kick in/lock at 11
minutes. That leaves me with only 1 minute where I'm in this
unexpectedly insecure state.

While testing, I've disabled the screensaver options (desired behavior)
to focus solely on the blank/lock issue.

Any ideas Michael Terry?

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Title:
  Screen not locked when turned off

Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “gnome-power-manager” source package in Lucid:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

  All settings I refer to here are gconf settings relative to /apps
  /gnome-power-manager unless fully qualified.

  If the value for timeout/sleep_display_ac (in seconds) is less than
  that of /desktop/gnome/session/idle_delay (in minutes) then the screen
  is blanked before the screensaver is activated.

  gnome-power-manager offers gconf options, described in its manual, for
  causing the screen to be locked when the screen is blanked.  This can
  in theory be set by enabling lock/blank_screen or enabling
  lock/use_screensaver_settings if /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_enabled
  is set.

  The problem is that neither of these settings appear to work.  As a
  result, if the screen is blanked before the screensaver starts, or if
  the screensaver is disabled entirely, the screen does not get locked
  when blanked.  These settings do not appear to behave as described in
  the manual.

  The manual also describes that power management timers begin only
  after session idle, but that doesn't appear to be the case anymore.
  power management timers now appear to start immediately, independent
  of session idle_delay.  This documentation should be updated.

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