LaptopSupportAndPowerManagement

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Cameron Hutchison">

> Once upon a time thully at umich.edu said...
> > 2) I don't like locking the system on suspend by default.  It is sure
> > annoying to have to enter the user password again if I close the lid for
> > 10 minutes.   The goal of suspend is to put your computer in a low power
> > state which allows you to start it back up in minimal time - locking the
> > screen makes resume more tedious and long and hinders the advantage of
> > suspend.
> 
> If the system is set up to lock the screen after a certain amount of
> inactivity, then I think that suspending the laptop should lock the
> screen. The idea behind locking the screen automatically is to lock the
> computer when it appears you have left your machine unattended. When you
> suspend to RAM (or hibernate), I think it is a valid assumption that you
> will be leaving your machine unattended.
> 
> If auto-locking is not set up then suspend should not lock the screen.

Yeah, we discussed this a couple of weeks ago, there should be an open bug
about this in bugzilla.

- Jeff

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