Lock Screen Fails & Unlocks Automatically

[franksmcb]

Can you tell me which version of mate-screensaver you are running?

mate-screensaver --version

There is/was an issue that has been fixed in mate-screensaver-1.20.2

This posting might be on some insight:

[Security issue] Lock-screen not retained when exit screensaver with TV hdmi

I’m not sure as I’m not involved with the SRU packaging process. It doesn’t look like it’s reached proposed yet. You can still install the new mate-screensaver 1.20.2 in the meantime by using the packages built for Cosmic at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mate-screensaver/1.20.2-1 under Builds. The downloads are: mate-screensaver-common_1.20.2-1_all.deb (4.4 MiB) mate-screensaver_1.20.2-1_amd64.deb (128.1 KiB) (64-bit only) mate-screensaver_1.20.2-1_i386.deb (135.9 KiB) (32-bit on…