I want to enable screen timeout and locking when my laptop is located in the LAN of my company and I want to disable this when I'm at home. For location detection I use whereami with a simple detection like this:
default unknown
testdhcp '172.16.*.*' work
testdhcp '192.168.36.*' home
Now I need to set the corresponding settings when I enter or leave the "work" network. But I have problems finding out where Gnome stores this stuff. I already found out where to toggle the "Lock" button in the screen configuration dialog. I do it like this in the whereami configuration:
!work su -c "dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/screensaver/lock-enabled false" k
=work su -c "dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/screensaver/lock-enabled true" k
This works so far. But I also need to configure the "Turn off after" setting in the screen configuration dialog. I found these three keys in dconf which are influences by it:
/org/gnome/desktop/session/idle-delay
/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power/sleep-display-battery
/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power/sleep-display-ac
But when I change them manually then it doesn't work and the screen dialog doesn't read the new value either. So I guess there are more keys I have to change but I can't find them (I search feature in this new dconf stuff would be nice).
So what settings have I to change to disable/enable the screen timeout?
Best Answer
Found it.
idle-delaymust be of typeuint32and not a string like the other two values. So this works for me: