screen locking time setting?

[O. Sinclair]

Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2008/4/3, Francisco Borges <francisco.borges at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:54 PM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >
>>  > Francisco Borges wrote:
>>  >  > Hello,
>>  >  >
>>  >  > How do I set the time that it takes for the screen to lock?
>>  >  >
>>  >  > I find it that it locks way too often, and would like to increase the
>>  >  > time it takes.
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Cheers,
>>  >  System Settings on the K Menu - choose Desktop, find Screensaver and
>>  >  look for time settings.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the email, but that simply doesn't work on my machine.
>>
>>  I had changed the settings there before, it's now on 3 hours, and I
>>  still find the desktop locked when I come back from lunch (which takes
>>  some 30, 40 minutes)
>>
>>  Any other ideas?
>>
> 
> Have checked for your monitors energy saving? I think that KDE is lockíng the
> desktop when the monit is enter some energy saving state.
> You can configure dpms in xorg.conf or from KDE's kcontrol.
> 
> / Jonas
or look in System Settings, Monitor & Display, Power Saving. Normally 
set to 45 mnutes.

Sinclair