How to enable automatic screen locking
If you live with younger kids or hostile and/or idiotic family or roomates, you may wish to automatically lock your screen after a certain period of inactivity, to prevent unauthorized access.
Doing this is recommended if you are staff on UltraVanilla. If you work any sort of remote job you should be doing this!
Windows #
Open Lock screen settings
Click Screen timeout
Click On resume, display login screen
Enter a wait time of 15 minutes
If you are on Windows 11 and have a phone, you may wish to configure automatically locking when a bluetooth device is no longer in range by going to Accounts > Sign-in options > Dynamic lock
Tip: You can use Win + L at any time to manually lock.
Linux KDE #
Open System Settings
Click Workspace Behavior
Click Screen Locking and configure a timeout of 15 minutes:
macOS #
Open System Preferences
Click Desktop & Screen Saver
Set a timeout of 10 minutes
Click Security & Privacy
Click Require password and set a timeout of 1 minutes. Alternatively, configure any combination of screensaver and password lock timeout that adds up to less than 15 minutes.
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