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["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- screen lock does not automatically engage when screen blanks
+ Lockscreen timeouts need less ambiguous description in system settings

** Project changed: unity => unity-control-center

** Also affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** No longer affects: unity (Ubuntu)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1334752

Title:
  Lockscreen timeouts need less ambiguous description in system settings

Status in Unity Control Center:
  New
Status in “unity-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is really, very, VERY annoying and a potential security problem.

  Looking at System Settings now for my 14.04 install on this desktop at
  Brightness & Lock, it very simply says:

  Lock: ON
  Lock screen after: 5 minutes

  I EXPECT that this means, after 5 minutes of inactivity, the screen
  will lock.

  However, all too often, my screen apparently does not lock.  It blanks
  first, and so expecting it to be locked, I type my password and hit
  enter (because I'm all to often faster at this than the OS is).  Only
  to find out that THIS time, the screen didn't lock, it was still under
  the 5 minute rule, perhaps, and I just typed my password into an IRC
  window and sent it to the world.

  The ONLY other thing I can find that seems to MAYBE have some control
  over screen blanking is the nVidia settings tool.  But that has no
  option for setting a screen blank timeout.

  I'm not the only person who experiences this, I know others who also
  have inadvertently typed a password and hit enter, expecting to unlock
  a locked screen, only to discover it was not locked and their password
  was transmitted to whatever open application currently has focus.

   I also just tried a small test. I hit the space bar to serve as some
  activity, then started a timer on my cellphone and waited.  After
  5'30", the screen STILL had not blanked.  So apparently, the 5 minutes
  is more of a guideline rather than a rule?

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