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MATE screen saver and locker
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[WISHLIST] Turn off screen immediately after locking with Ctrl + Alt + L #141

Open o-alquimista opened 6 years ago

o-alquimista commented 6 years ago

As it happens with GNOME 3, after locking the screen with the shortcut, the screen turns off instead of showing a blank black screen for as long as the timeout for the screensaver is configured. I believe this should be the behavior in MATE too.

mannih commented 6 years ago

That's exactly what I'm seeing with mate-screensaver 1.8.2

MingcongBai commented 6 years ago

Same here. MATE Screensaver 1.18.2.

ghost commented 6 years ago

Same here; 1.18.2

MingcongBai commented 6 years ago

Could someone please look into this issue? This is extremely inconvenient at night, if you would like to lock your screen but keep your laptop running (and it is obviously unhealthy for the laptop to run while having the lid closed).

bwat47 commented 6 years ago

gnome-screensaver does this. However, one concern I want to note in case this ever gets implemented in mate-screensaver:

Gnome-screensaver (and mate-screensaver) don't lock the screen before suspend, rather they lock the screen upon resume.

With gnome-screensaver (since it also shuts off the screen after locking), this has a very annoying side effect where if I close my laptop lid and then open it, my laptop display shuts off after resume, so I have to wiggle my mouse to get the screen to turn back on and the lock screen to show.

mate-screensaver doesn't have this issue which is actually one of the reasons I'm using mate (and not budgie which uses gnome-screensaver and has this annoying issue)

With gnome-shell and it's fancy new screen shield, I believe it activates the lock screen before suspend (instead of upon resume) so it doesn't have this issue when you resume

alexhaydock commented 4 years ago

Has there been any movement on this in the past few years?

I definitely agree with the above suggestions that integration with immediate screen blanking would help the distributions packaging mate-screensaver to feel more like a well-polished product similar to GNOME3, macOS and Windows' current behaviour.

I'm seeing the same issue as highlighted above - when locking the screen when walking away from my machine, the display will continue to be active and display only black until the display timeout is reached.

felixvonberlin commented 3 weeks ago

mate-screensaver doesn't have this issue which is actually one of the reasons I'm using mate (and not budgie which uses gnome-screensaver and has this annoying issue)

I suppose, the best way would be a checkbox or an option in the screensaver list, right?

Not turning of the monitor off on mobile devices like laptops kills the battery faster then necessary...