#Automatic bluetooth screen lock windows install#
#Automatic bluetooth screen lock windows Patch#
#Automatic bluetooth screen lock windows Pc#
#Automatic bluetooth screen lock windows Bluetooth#
#Automatic bluetooth screen lock windows mac#

When set, close the preferences window entirely and test it out by taking your authorised device and moving beyond your set distance for the set duration. To unlock I simply need to move my device to within 2 metres of my laptop. It should go without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that the “locking distance’ must be greater than the unlocking distance.Īs I work from a coffee shop I chose something nice and intimate: a radius of 5 metres (when my device goes past this my computer locks). If this line is maxed out at 255 it means something has gone wrong and you need to skim back a few steps and reconnect. ‘Measured atm’ lets you see a live, auto-updating gauge on how close your configured device currently is (again in metres).

The duration (the time in which the app monitors the range) in seconds.

The distance (within which the app will trigger an action) is in metres.

Here is where you set up how close your device has to be in (or out) of range to trigger the lock screen. Next, head into the next tab titled “Proximity Details”.

#Automatic bluetooth screen lock windows mac#

This will auto-fill the MAC address box with the device’s pertinent info. Select your smartphone/tablet and click ‘Use selected device’.

#Automatic bluetooth screen lock windows Bluetooth#

This should (hopefully) list connected Bluetooth devices. įirst: click the ‘Scan for Devices’ button. Here’s where things start to get a little YMMV. You’ll see a tray item appear (in the lower left if you’re not using the Top Icons extensions) and, the first time you run it, a configuration window will open: Choosing a Device the Easy Way With your smartphone or tablet already paired with your GNOME desktop you can go ahead and launch BlueProximity from the GNOME Activities Overlay.

#Automatic bluetooth screen lock windows Patch#

…And the second applies it to BlueProximity: sudo patch /usr/share/blueproximity/proximity.py < proximity.patch The first command grabs the indicator patch… wget If you’d rather have access to the BlueProximity indicator (and I think you would) you need to run the following commands in a new terminal. Whilst you can skip this, if you do you won’t be able to reconfigure the app using the GUI without deleting your entire config file and starting over.

You can get it to show up, however, by using a third-party patch.

#Automatic bluetooth screen lock windows install#

To fetch it via the command line run: sudo apt-get install blueproximityīecause BleuProximity is an old app its system tray applet is no longer supported by modern desktop environments. Thankfully this is easy the app is available to install from the Ubuntu repos in both Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The next step is to install the BlueProximity app. Follow the on-screen prompts for the rest. Open up GNOME Control Center, head to Bluetooth, and click on the name of the device you want to use. It is crazy how many people forget to do this step! You don’t need anything special here, just remember to make sure that your phone/tablet is visible before you try connecting to it. The first thing you need to do before installing any additional apps is to pair your phone or tablet with your Ubuntu laptop or PC. Install & Configure BlueProximity on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Using it with other Linux distributions, flavours, desktops may vary. It does, however, work just dandy with Ubuntu GNOME, which is what I have used to test the app as described in the rest of this guide. This means BlueProximity does not work with the Unity desktop. So old that Ubuntu’s choice of lock screen tech - *waves at Unity Greeter* - has fast superseded it. It’s all about convenience.Ĭonsider this app a curio, an interesting thing to play around with, rather than a viable, predictable or (even) sensible unlocking mechanism. Is it security prudent? Heck no! But security isn’t the selling point here. All automatic. No need to enter a password or wiggle a cursor. When you’re back within range it unlocks.Īll seamless.

#Automatic bluetooth screen lock windows Pc#

When your phone goes out of range of your laptop or PC for a configurable amount of time your session locks. You set a device, the proximity at which to lock/unlock, and carry on as normal.

BlueProximityīlueProximity is an app that lets you quickly lock and unlock your Linux laptop or PC using a Bluetooth device, like a smartphone or tablet. ‘BlueProximity lets you quickly lock and unlock your Linux laptop or PC using a Bluetooth device, like a smartphone or tablet’įour words into Google later and I found just the ticket - and one hell of a headache.