Callum Macdonald » lock screen http://www.callum-macdonald.com Callum on life Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:10:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Ubuntu lock screen on laptop close lid http://www.callum-macdonald.com/2008/06/11/ubuntu-lock-screen-on-laptop-close-lid/ http://www.callum-macdonald.com/2008/06/11/ubuntu-lock-screen-on-laptop-close-lid/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:30:00 +0000 Callum http://www.callum-macdonald.com/?p=615 Continue reading →]]> 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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