Question

When the computer enters sleep it locks itself and I would like to avoid that. (Ubuntu 9.10)

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Answer 1

Try:

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

Else

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 these 2 don't work then

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

or -

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.

Close, save and try it out.

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Answer 2

MoarningSun got it partially working: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/255228

Credit to mac for finding the launchpad bug report, and cleaning it up some.

Answer 3

To disable the screen lock on suspend you must open a gconf-editor and disable the following options:

/apps/gnome-power-manager/lock_on_hibernate = false

/apps/gnome-power-manager/lock_on_suspend = false

/apps/gnome-power-manager/lock_on_blank_screen = false

However with this settings when you press the suspend butto you get no screensaver at all and therefore no visible feedback until the laptop is switched off. I solved this second problem by creating a /etc/acpi/suspend.d/06-gnome-screensaver.sh script which starts the gnome-screensaver at the beginning of the sleep sequence. Now I have screensaver on suspend but no screen lock dialog on resume.

It would be nice if gnome-power-manager would rename the current lock_on_* options to screensaver_on_* and add a new lock_screen option to decide if locking the screen or simply activating a screensaver.