Comments on: How to disable locking on lid-close (laptop) : Ubuntu (6.06.1 / 6.10)

By: Tyler Oderkirk

Tyler Oderkirk — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:37:50 +0000

The following command worked with Hardy for me and my Thinkpad T30:

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gconftool-2 –set /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock/blank_screen –type bool true
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By: Felipe Alvarez

Felipe Alvarez — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:02:07 +0000

I wanted the opposite. I want it to lock after blanking screen. This did it for me (mint 5 == ubuntu 8.04 == debian unstable)

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:59:46 +0000

Thanks, that was getting seriously annoying. 1 step closer to deleting the xp partition.

By: Augustus

Augustus — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:34:44 +0000

Yeah, it works fine for Feisty. I also used this for Edgy, and it worked great there too.

Thanks for posting the solution. This was the first solution that I hit when I was googling….and since I forgot how to do it when I installed Feisty, I regoogled and found it again =)

Thanks.

By: Jakob

Jakob — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:54:50 +0000

Seems to work just fine for Feisty too, if anyone is wondering…

By: TaJMoX

TaJMoX — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:36:44 +0000

Thanks a lot!
Helped me out bunches!
And yes I think this should be in the power management gui.

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:12:51 +0000

Thanks. A big help!

By: foo

foo — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:00:54 +0000

Damn… this doesn’t work for me – it still annoyingly logs me out whenever I close the lid – I wouldn’t mind if it just locked the screen leaving programs running, but it actually logs me out!

By: ChrisK

ChrisK — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:25:59 +0000

i would like to say:

thanks for posting this. it works.

sorry to hear that your efforts are rewarded by some goofball calling you a liar because they can’t read. it would have been quicker for them to read rather than to write an idiotic response.

By: Aaron Toponce

Aaron Toponce — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:58:29 +0000

Roger-

Maybe I’m missing something here, but what’s the point of blogs and community if you can’t share public information? It’s not like anyone has a copyright on any of it.

Besides, what are you doing to help the Ubuntu community?