GNOME Shell Screen Lock - Timeout

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Jan 12 20:53:08 UTC 2014


Allegedly, on or about 12 January 2014, Jorge Fábregas sent:
> That's where the 5 minutes came from (Power Setting for Monitor).  Ok,
> I've changed that to 15 minutes. However, now I went to the Privacy
> applet and changed, under Screen Lock:
> 
> Lock screen after blank for "30 seconds" (before I had "Screen turns
> off")
> 
> ..but it won't lock the screen after 30 seconds of inactivity.  I even
> restarted the GNOME session.  Does it work for you (screen locking)? 

Is it, now:

15 minutes to blanking the screen, then
30 seconds after blanking it, lock it?

The extra delay giving you a moment to abort locking the screen, if it
winks out while you're just looking at something on screen.

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