#6 Screen not locking

[fmaste]

I used the .deb file to install on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.
The screen is not automatically locked, it just go to sleep like a black screensaver and returns without any password.

I download the source and changed two lines (51 and 52) on proximity.py with the following:

'lock_command=string(default=''gnome-screensaver-command --lock'')',
'unlock_command=string(default=''gnome-screensaver-command --deactivate'')',

and it worked.

I also tried the older commands on a terminal ("gnome-screensaver-command -a" and "gnome-screensaver-command -d") and they did not work, just a black screen.

Great application! Please check this so that everybody can use it.

[Lars Friedrichs]

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Interesting - is your gnome screensaver configured to be locking the screen at all? Mine is - that's possibly why it locks the screen with password just by activating. I will check that.

[Lars Friedrichs]

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I rechecked that and it is true - the options for gnome-screensaver-command read as follows
-a = activation
-l = locking
and it does as said - even if the screensaver is not configured for asking the password -l will make it ask for it. I changed that in the SVN version.
Thanks for the note. (btw, it does not matter if short parameters or long ones are used, I prefer the shorter ones as I am pretty lazy :-)

[fmaste]

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Yes, I have no screen saver, I just put the display to sleep after some time of inactivity. That's why activating the screen saver does not lock the screen.
But now with -l it is working fine even without having the gnome screen saver configured to lock the screen.

[Lars Friedrichs]

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Ok, I consider this bug to be closed then as SVN and nightly do include the new command as default now.