** 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) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. 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? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-control-center/+bug/1334752/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp