Hi there,

I am running Ubuntu 11.10 on a notebook and I use Gnome 3 instead of Unity, I setup screen saver to blank the screen after 5min. of inactivity and that worked ok, but whenever the screen is blank and I try to bring it back with mouse the password box pop up, but I did not enable screen lock, and after the screen come back, it will go blank again in few seconds and then come back normal, this happen everytime which is quite annoying, I can't find a way to change that, any idea ?

The screen saver and lock go hand in hand, I would guess this is so if someone bumps the mouse it doesn't flash back, for the randomly going blank I have no idea. If the lock gets really bad I'd find the preferences under power management, I use lubuntu so for me it is a battery icon in the lower left side of the 'taskbar' (what is it called in Linux? I hate using windows terminology) Also a netbook is a very small and energy conous computer, I wouldn't be surprised if those seconds of inactivity where it loading resources into ram.

'Panel' in *buntu term
Actually it is Ubuntu Studio with Gnome shell in stead of xfce, may be unity work better but never like it never tried.