Ubuntu 6.06 question

[lokiju]

Whenever I come out of standby it prompts for my password, is there any way to stop this?

I want to just have it come straight out of standby without having to do anything but open the lid up.

Thanks.

Update:

Well after going into standby logged in as root, it did not prompt for a password.

So I guess it's a user setting but don't know what.

 

[cleverhandle]

I'm guessing there should be an option in either the screensaver properties or power management properties. I don't have an Ubuntu machine at hand to check.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: cleverhandle
I'm guessing there should be an option in either the screensaver properties or power management properties. I don't have an Ubuntu machine at hand to check.

I don't see any options for this in either settings menu.

Any other ideas?

 

[xtknight]

Standby? I only seem to have a hibernate function in my Ubuntu.

 

[lokiju]

Under System>Preferences>Power Management

On the first screen at the bottom it says...

Actions
When laptop lid is closed: and I selected suspend.

Suspend works fine, just keeps prompting for password when coming out of it is all.

 

[cleverhandle]

What about the option "Lock screen when screensaver is active" under Screensaver Preferences? I can't really test it adequately in my VM, but AFAIK it's gnome-screensaver that handles all the screen locking, no matter where it originates from.

 

[cleverhandle]

Ah... how about editing /etc/default/acpi-support and changing "LOCK_SCREEN" to "false"?

Hard to see exactly how everything is supposed to work - it looks like Ubuntu recently changed over from xscreensaver to gnome-screensaver, but there are still xscreensaver references floating around. And ACPI has never been the most elegant Linux system in the first place.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: cleverhandle
Ah... how about editing /etc/default/acpi-support and changing "LOCK_SCREEN" to "false"?

Hard to see exactly how everything is supposed to work - it looks like Ubuntu recently changed over from xscreensaver to gnome-screensaver, but there are still xscreensaver references floating around. And ACPI has never been the most elegant Linux system in the first place.

Well I changed it to "false" and it still prompts for my password when coming out of standby.

Any other help would be appreciated.

:beer:

 

[lokiju]

Any ideas?

 

[lokiju]

Well after going into standby logged in as root, it did not prompt for a password.

So I guess it's a user setting but don't know what.

 

[Nothinman]

That's because xscreensaver refuses to run as root because running a desktop as root is a bad idea.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
That's because xscreensaver refuses to run as root because running a desktop as root is a bad idea.

So any idea how to stop it on a standard user account when coming out of standby?

 

[Nothinman]

Nope, I want mine locked on resume so I've never looked at how to disable it.