Stop the screen from locking on suspend in 9.10?

**tryingtoboot** · November 2nd, 2009

I want to make it so when I put the computer in standby or hibernate it doesn't lock the screen. I only see the option to do this for the screensaver and for automatic login. How do I do this for standby/hibernate?

**Johndo1** · November 2nd, 2009

I'll catch hell for saying this but:
I kinda like 9.04 better. I have vista, 9.10 and 9.04 and 9.10 gave me lots of problems. I only bring this up because I read your other questions and since you need it fixed for your dad I thought I'd throw that out there.

Anyway for your problem.

Go System > Preferences > Screensaver and uncheck the box that says lock when screensaver is active.

And

System > Preferences > Power Management
In there you can find some interesting things.

Hope this help.
(I'm currently in 9.04 could be different in 9.10)

Also after re-reading this and checking i'm not sure if power-management evenn has that option lsited. Try it out...

**tryingtoboot** · November 2nd, 2009

Originally Posted by Johndo1

I'll catch hell for saying this but:
I kinda like 9.04 better. I have vista, 9.10 and 9.04 and 9.10 gave me lots of problems. I only bring this up because I read your other questions and since you need it fixed for your dad I thought I'd throw that out there.

Well I was having a problem with the video driver in 9.04 that I thought was supposed to be fixed in 9.10 (which it doesn't look like it was) so that's why I upgraded. I want to stick with 9.10 because of the performance, but if I can't get it working I will try openSUSE 11.2 Gnome when it comes out.

Originally Posted by Johndo1

Anyway for your problem.

Go System > Preferences > Screensaver and uncheck the box that says lock when screensaver is active.

Already did that.

Originally Posted by Johndo1

And

System > Preferences > Power Management
In there you can find some interesting things.

Hope this help.
(I'm currently in 9.04 could be different in 9.10)

Also after re-reading this and checking i'm not sure if power-management evenn has that option lsited. Try it out...

Yeah, it doesn't have the options there. I read somewhere about gconf-editor but I'm not sure what to do there.

**Johndo1** · November 2nd, 2009

Check this thread out:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201256

Try this: (wich is in the link I provided)

Code:

gconftool-2 --type boolean -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock_on_blank_screen false
gconftool-2 --type boolean -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock_use_screensaver_settings false

If this ends up making your screen not go blank when you shut it just do these:

Code:

gconftool-2 --type boolean -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock_on_blank_screen True
gconftool-2 --type boolean -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock_use_screensaver_settings True

**tryingtoboot** · November 2nd, 2009

Originally Posted by Johndo1

Check this thread out:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201256

Try this: (wich is in the link I provided)

Code:

gconftool-2 --type boolean -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock_on_blank_screen false
gconftool-2 --type boolean -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock_use_screensaver_settings false

If this ends up making your screen not go blank when you shut it just do these:

Code:

gconftool-2 --type boolean -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock_on_blank_screen True
gconftool-2 --type boolean -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock_use_screensaver_settings True

That didn't work. When I try to put the computer in standby, the screen goes black, but the computer doesn't actually go into sleep like with the blinking power indicator like it does in XP. And when I move the mouse, it still asks for my password.

**bigbroantonio** · November 3rd, 2009

I had the same problem. I did two things:

1.

Open the terminal, and type sudo gconf-editor (you'll need to type root password)
In the window that comes up go to apps > gnome-power-manager > lock
On the right, UNCHECK suspend and hibernate and make sure that the use_screensaver_settings is CHECKED

2. (I'm not sure if this is necessary - please let me know)

In your terminal type sudo gedit /etc/default/acpi-support
Go to the line that says LOCK_SCREEN=true and put a # in front of it. So, you'll have a line that reads: #LOCK_SCREEN=true
Close, save and try it out.

It worked for me.

Too complicated, though. Should be much easier (especially since when you ask to automatically log in during install you assume the same would happen after standby or hibernate).

**tryingtoboot** · November 3rd, 2009

Originally Posted by bigbroantonio

I had the same problem. I did two things:

1.

Open the terminal, and type sudo gconf-editor (you'll need to type root password)
In the window that comes up go to apps > gnome-power-manager > lock
On the right, UNCHECK suspend and hibernate and make sure that the use_screensaver_settings is CHECKED

2. (I'm not sure if this is necessary - please let me know)

In your terminal type sudo gedit /etc/default/acpi-support
Go to the line that says LOCK_SCREEN=true and put a # in front of it. So, you'll have a line that reads: #LOCK_SCREEN=true
Close, save and try it out.

It worked for me.

Too complicated, though. Should be much easier (especially since when you ask to automatically log in during install you assume the same would happen after standby or hibernate).

Even that didn't work. Maybe there were other things you checked or unchecked too?

**bigbroantonio** · November 4th, 2009

The attachment shows what my gconf-editor setup looks like under apps > gnome-power-manager > lock

As for editing LOCK_SCREEN in acpi-support, I've pasted my file here:

http://pastebin.com/d5e82bc91