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xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
type="topic" style="task"
id="desktop-lockscreen">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="appearance" />
<link type="seealso" xref="dconf-profiles" />
<link type="seealso" xref="dconf-lockdown" />
<revision pkgversion="3.30" date="2019-02-08" status="review"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Jana Svarova</name>
<email>jana.svarova@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Shaun McCance</name>
<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
<years>2014</years>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Petr Kovar</name>
<email>pknbe@volny.cz</email>
<years>2019</years>
</credit>
<desc>Make the screen automatically lock, so the user must
enter a password after being idle.</desc>
</info>
<title>Lock the screen when the user is idle</title>
<p>You can make the screen lock automatically whenever the user
is idle for some amount of time. This is useful if users
may leave their computers unattended in public or unsecure
locations.</p>
<steps>
<title>Enable automatic screen lock</title>
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xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-profile-user'])"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<include href="dconf-snippets.xml"
xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-profile-user-dir'])"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<item>
<p>Create the key file
<file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-screensaver</file> to provide
information for the <sys>local</sys> database.</p>
<listing>
<title><file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-screensaver</file></title>
<code>
# Specify the dconf path
[org/gnome/desktop/session]
# Number of seconds of inactivity before the screen goes blank
# Set to 0 seconds if you want to deactivate the screensaver.
idle-delay=uint32 180
# Specify the dconf path
[org/gnome/desktop/screensaver]
# Number of seconds after the screen is blank before locking the screen
lock-delay=uint32 0
</code>
</listing>
<p>You must include the <code>uint32</code> along with the
integer key values as shown.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>To prevent the user from overriding these settings, create the file
<file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/screensaver</file> with the following
content:</p>
<listing>
<title><file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/screensaver</file></title>
<code>
# Lock desktop screensaver settings
/org/gnome/desktop/session/idle-delay
/org/gnome/desktop/screensaver/lock-delay
</code>
</listing>
</item>
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xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-update'])"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<include href="dconf-snippets.xml"
xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-logoutin'])"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</steps>
</page>
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