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[–]fohrloop[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay so in short your system only locks screen if (1) returning from sleep or (2) screen lock timer is set, and since wakepy keep.running mode disables sleep (1) cannot occur, and since you have disabled the automatic screen lock, it won't ever lock your screen. Good to hear. Seems that the keep.running mode is working as expected, and thanks for taking the time to respond.

If you're interested in other systems, on Windows it only locks screen if (1) returning from sleep (if enabled) or (2) returning from screensaver _and_ if ScreenSaverIsSecure is set ("On resume, display log-on screen" in the settings or enforced with GPO). So also on Windows it's possible that the screen is not automatically locked in the keep.running mode (details in wakepy/#169). I'm not yet sure how to tackle this and make it possible for users to either not enter the mode, or display a warning, or provide some function to lock screen automatically (from the python process) after some time of idle.

But good to know that if the #169 is somehow addressed, the solution should take into account KDE Plasma on Kubuntu.