Screensaver when closing laptop-display?

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Josef Wolf wrote:
> Thanks for your answer, Andrew!
> 
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 04:21:36AM -0600, Andrew Farris wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 05:32 +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 02:25:13PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
>>>> With 9.10, I had to disable suspend-to-ram/HD on my acer travelmate 8371,
>>>> since it fails to resume. But now, when I close the display, the display is
>>>> shut off, but the screensaver is not activated. So when the display is
>>>> opened again, the desktop is accessible without entering a password.

>>> Ugh, I can't even find how to manually lock the screen in 9.10. In previous
>>> releases, there used to appear lots of options when the "power" button in
>>> the upper right corner was clicked. Along with them was the option to switch
>>> user and to lock the screen. Now only "logout", "susupend", "restart" and
>>> "swithc off" are available.
>>>
>>> What happened?
>> To manually lock the screen, I believe you press ctrl+alt+L
> 
> Yeah, that's fine!

	Also, at least in 9.04, there is an applet named "Lock Screen". Once 
you add it to the panel, just click on it, and the screen locks...



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