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Lock and Turn-off ... why not by default?!

For reasons that I do not understand, most distributions including Linux Mint and my old favourite Ubuntu, doesnt seem to turn the display off once I have locked it (with keys Ctrl+Alt+L). For me, when I lock the display, it means that I am not interested in seeing anything on the display; or I am going away from the display/computer (physically). Either way, my intention was to make it secure while I leave it unattended! If I am not interested in the display, wouldn't it make sense to turn it off as well?! For me logically yes!

Anyway, I had to make it work like that for me. Had to knock-together a little script and re-assign the lock keyboard shortcut to execute that script. The below script did it for me.


#!/bin/sh
( sleep 3 && /usr/bin/xset dpms force off )&
/usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-command --lock


It starts a background task which will kick-in after three seconds since we locked the display. For some unknown reason, in my case, it didn't work without the delay.

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  1. arthur19 December 2012 at 12:08

    For those who want a similar functionality on Windows 8, have a look here http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/8267-power-options-add-console-lock-display-off-timeout-windows-8-a.html

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