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Whole screen contents shown after wake before lockscreen is shown (power settings inadequate)

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Description

### What Happened?

There is an issue with the sleep-wake-hibernate behaviour in the OS. When I open the lid to my laptop, everyone can see the contents of the screen. Only after a couple of seconds does the system realize it's supposed to be locked, and then the system switches to the lockscreen.

A side note is that the power settings are inadequate in the OS. Even if the setting on lid close is to hibernate or suspend, the system should be locked immediately. I haven't tested it yet, but this could be a serious vulnerability and an easily exploitable one.

[I posted another sleep-wake issue here, maybe they're related?
](https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-display/issues/333)
It would be much better if the system could be locked on lid close, and then suspend/hibernate after a certain period of time. As of now, the power settings only allow you to choose one option for lid close.

I'm posting this here as I believe it is related to the power settings and sleep-wake.

### Steps to Reproduce

Close lid and open

### Expected Behavior

System should be locked before the wake process. Nobody should be able to view the screen contents of a "locked" system.

### OS Version

6.x (Odin)

### Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

### Log Output

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### Hardware Info

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