How to default to locking the screen on suspend in a distro package

[ericonr]

 * Cinnamon-Screensaver version 4.8.1
 * Distribution - Void Linux

Issue

I'm not sure I'm asking this in the correct repository. I'm working on updating Cinnamon to the 4.8.x releases for Void Linux, and in my testing I've detected that, by default, the option to lock the screen before suspending the device isn't toggled, meaning that opening the device after suspending it gives me ready access to it, without asking for a password. I consider this behavior slightly surprising, and would like to know if there is some way I can configure the default setting to have that option toggled, so suspend locks the screen and protects a user's desktop.

Expected behaviour

By default, without any configuration by the user, suspending the device should also lock their session.

[JosephMcc]

The setting you are looking for is this one: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-settings-daemon/blob/master/data/org.cinnamon.settings-daemon.plugins.power.gschema.xml.in.in#L129

You should be able to override this by using a gsettings-overide. A quick search will tell you how to go about it.

[ericonr]

@JosephMcc I see, thanks. Seeing as it's a default which doesn't appear to be configured by distros, do you know why it was set up this way? Maybe I'm missing something.

[PowaBanga]

You can use dconf as root to see and/or modify default setting for all user ...

[ericonr]

There isn't much to act on right now, though I'd still be interested in knowing the rationale behind the default being not to lock the screen.

Closing issue.