Ubuntu lock screen on laptop close lid

In Fedora 8 when I closed my laptop lid, my screen would lock. Under Ubuntu 8.04 this doesn’t happen. After a bit of digging, I found a solution. The gconf setting is “/apps/gnome-power-manager/lock/blank_screen”. When set to true, closing the lid will lock the screen. Luvvvly. :)

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9 Comments

  1. Scott Kitterman
    Posted 19 Jun 2008 at 22:49 | Permalink

    Works just fine with Kubuntu.

  2. Posted 19 Jun 2008 at 22:56 | Permalink

    @Scott Kitterman: I’m not sure what you mean. The change works fine with Kubuntu, or the screen locks automatically under Kubuntu?

  3. Posted 16 Aug 2008 at 04:33 | Permalink

    Thanks. Very helpful.

  4. Posted 01 Sep 2008 at 20:23 | Permalink

    Excellent. Thanks for finding this setting.

    I am running Fedora 9, and had the opposite problem: it defaults to locking the screen whenever it blanks the screen (such as when the laptop lid is closed). I do NOT want it to lock the screen then. Just blank it, then restore the screen when the laptop lid is opened again.

    Clearing the checkbox hasn’t worked yet, but it’s a good start.

  5. Posted 26 Sep 2008 at 13:50 | Permalink

    Thanks, very helpful!

  6. robert
    Posted 22 Nov 2008 at 05:12 | Permalink

    Thanks, worked well for me.
    Don’t know why they disabled this feature.

  7. Kschneidertz
    Posted 18 May 2009 at 07:23 | Permalink

    This work for me on Ubuntu 9.04, thanks.

  8. Posted 30 Nov 2009 at 21:10 | Permalink

    Worked like a charm on 9.10.

  9. Adam Nissley
    Posted 25 Feb 2010 at 21:10 | Permalink

    Thanks. I found this very helpful. I also found some other problem settings that were bothering me much less!

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