Comment 17 for bug 620693

Oh my goodness. I've been going by the reproduction steps in comment #5, where I can't reproduce the problem. But a closer reading of the original report and the reproduction steps in comment #4 make me realize I have misunderstood.

The problem isn't that if you wait for your system to be idle, you don't get a lock, the problem is that if you wait for the screen to blank *but before the screensaver determines your system is idle*, you don't get a lock.

Sorry for the confusion. I'll investigate whether the problem is bad documentation of the gconf keys or if there is a bug in the power manager.