it is not possible to suspend the display before locking the screen

Bug #334563 reported by sanktnelson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-power
Expired
Wishlist
gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

since all timeouts in power management can only be set to values larger than the screen saver activation time, it is impossible to have the screen blanked without locking it if one still wants to lock it during a longer absence. It should be possible to set those times independently, in fact I see no good reason for linking them the way they are. When my laptop is on battery, I typically want the screen to switch off to conserve battery, if I haven't pressed a button for two minutes or so (about the time it takes to read what is displayed on the screen in reasonable font size). But I don't want to have to type in a password every time I look away for slightly longer than those two minutes. However, I still want the screen locked if I'm actually away for some time (say 5minutes or more).

This is on up-to-date 8.10

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YoBoY (yoboy-leguesh) wrote :

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Changed in gnome-screensaver:
status: New → Confirmed
affects: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) → gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Confirmed → New
Revision history for this message
Scott Howard (showard314) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587147

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-power:
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
sanktnelson (launchpad-maibaums) wrote :

in case anybody ever looks here again:
Interestingly there is actually a registry setting that does this (find it with gconf-editor), but it's not exposed in the standard UI.

Changed in gnome-power:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
Changed in gnome-power:
status: New → Expired
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