no lock when multiple display used

Submitted by Yves-Alexis Perez

Assigned to Ali Abdallah @ali

Link to original bug (#8607)

Description

Hey,

this one is not exactly a bug, more an not so documented feature, which some people might find questionable. As it is somehow security related, it's wise to have it documented and maybe think about it.

Downstream bug is at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666061 but basically a summary is that, when multiple screens are used, xfce4-power-manager won't lock the screen on lid close even though the setting is set to “Lock screen”.

I guess (as I said on dowstream bug) the rationale is that people do it when they use their laptop docked with an external screen and external mouse/keyboard. Then they only use the external screen, and close the display. In this case, they might not want to lock the screen.

Note that the behavior is not consistent with the suspend case: when xfpm is configured to suspend on lid close, it'll happily do it even though an external screen is plugged in, so I'm not sure the rationale really holds.

Some way to fix it would be to add another option, maybe an hidden one, and to document the behavior somehwere.

Version: 1.0.10