GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 545338
Would like lock_delay to be able to be done in seconds instead of minutes
Last modified: 2012-01-17 14:26:43 UTC
It would be nice if the lock_delay setting, which currently says it is the delay in minutes after the screen saver activates before locking the screen. It would seem better to have a lock_delay setting that is in seconds. I personally would like a 3-5 second delay so I have time to move the mouse/press the keyboard to stop the screen saver. Maybe a lock_delay_seconds configuration variable? Or lock_delay could be a float? Thanks, John
i can see why that would be useful though similarly why minutes or hours would also be in other situations. maybe there should be some arbitrary value by separate pulldowns: one for the number (0..9) and one for units of the number (h/m/s) nifty it would be.
This is fixed in 3.2, isn't it? The setting description for org.gnome.desktop.screensaver.lock-delay says: > The number of seconds after screensaver activation before locking the screen.
testing in fedora16-gnome with gnome-shell-3.2.1-2.fc16.x86_64 gnome-screensaver-3.2.0-1.fc16.x86_64 does list 'seconds' in dconf key help text but since the reporter listed minutes/hours took it as being about the settings screen gui. if reporter says this is about key not gui then this should indeed close and i will spawn another bug for the passthrough of custom dconf values directly from gui :')
Thanks for the feedback. I don't think designers will accept to add a way to specify an arbitrary nubmer of seconds from the control panel. But you've already "Screen turns off" and "30 seconds". If I understand correctly, the point of setting the timeout to 3 seconds is that the screen locks instantly unless you move the pointer to prevent this. That behavior is probably useful for everybody: we can just say that "Screen turns off" should mean "5 seconds" rather than "0 seconds". There's no losss of security, since you can hardly imagine that somebody will rush onto your computer just when you moved away from it, all of this in less than 5 seconds. So I think you should file a bug against gnome-control-center to request this change, giving this rationale. Please post the bug number here so that I can subscribe to it.