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? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/620693 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/620693/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
