Automatically locking screen without shutting it off

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Published on 2012-04-15T07:08:19Z Indexed on 2012/06/06 10:48 UTC
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Hey everyone— I have a home theater PC running Ubuntu 11.10, outputting over HDMI (for audio and video). I'm having an issue: I'd like the screen to lock automatically (when video is not playing, of course) but do not want the screen to turn off automatically, because that kills audio. I can manually lock the screen, of course, but it appears that if you set the "Turn off screen" setting to "never", the screen will never lock, no matter what the "lock screen" timeout is set to.

Is there a way to do what I'm asking, or will I have to install xscreensaver?

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