Screen lock and lock screen timeouts are conflated

Bug #1472262 reported by Robie Basak
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Bug Description

1. Set Security & Privacy -> Lock phone to "After 10 minutes"
2. Lock phone (or wait 10 minutes for it to lock).
3. Receive a text.

Expected behaviour: screen turns off very soon after to conserve battery (I expect between 5 and 60 seconds).

Actual behaviour: screen remains on for 10 minutes, draining battery.

Even worse, if I set the lock to "Never" then after receiving a text the screen will never turn off. In this case I expect to take responsibility for turning the screen off when I am done using it, but I expect the phone not to turn the screen back on when I am not around and receive a notification unless the phone does time it out in that case.

I think the screen lock timeout should be completely separate from the lock screen timeout. I would like to set 10 minutes or never for the screen lock timeout, but I still want the lock screen to time out and turn the display off after a few seconds.

I found bug 1420493 which is in a related area but doesn't refer to the lock screen timeout itself. My failure case is a use case about battery drain, rather than needing to repeatedly re-enter the passcode.

Tags: pm-fail
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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

Using Aquaris E4.5 on image r23.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

settings is an application, it doesn't control the screen locking or what happens after wakeup, reassigning to unity8

affects: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu) → unity8 (Ubuntu)
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kevin gunn (kgunn72) wrote :

removing duplicate marker.
bug 1426115 is about the screen timing out faster in the case where the screen is turned on by a system event such as a notification vs. a user touch/interaction

tags: added: pm-fail
kevin gunn (kgunn72)
no longer affects: unity-system-compositor (Ubuntu)
no longer affects: unity-system-compositor
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

See also bug 1461476.

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