diff --git a/frontend/tests/widgets.spec.ts b/frontend/tests/widgets.spec.ts
index 98435c1..e453e36 100644
--- a/frontend/tests/widgets.spec.ts
+++ b/frontend/tests/widgets.spec.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ const flowName = `test_widgets_${Date.now().toString(36)}`
 const dashboardName = `${flowName}_panel`
 /** A panel of its own: a bar of three rows needs a tile to itself. */
 const stackName = `${flowName}_stack`
+/** A read-only dashboard, on its own so the lock guard below has a lamp the
+ *  interaction test above hasn't already flipped. */
+const lockedName = `${flowName}_locked`
 
 /** A message of the flow under test, qualified the way the engine names it. */
 const w = (name: string) => `${flowName}.${name}`
@@ -230,6 +233,30 @@ test.beforeAll(async ({ browser }) => {
     method: "POST",
     data: { version: stacked.version },
   })
+
+  const locked = await (
+    await api(page, `/dashboards/${lockedName}`, { method: "POST" })
+  ).json()
+  locked.settings = { ...(locked.settings ?? {}), locked: { value: true } }
+  locked.widgets = [
+    {
+      id: "lamp",
+      type: "switch",
+      title: "Lamp",
+      layout: { lg: { x: 0, y: 0, w: 3, h: 2 } },
+      config: { target: w("lamp"), dtype: "bool", style: "button" },
+    },
+  ]
+  const lockedDraft = await (
+    await api(page, `/dashboards/${lockedName}`, {
+      method: "PUT",
+      data: locked,
+    })
+  ).json()
+  await api(page, `/dashboards/${lockedName}/publish`, {
+    method: "POST",
+    data: { version: lockedDraft.version },
+  })
   await page.close()
 })
 
@@ -237,6 +264,7 @@ test.afterAll(async ({ browser }) => {
   await deleteAll(browser, [
     `/dashboards/${dashboardName}`,
     `/dashboards/${stackName}`,
+    `/dashboards/${lockedName}`,
     `/flows/${flowName}`,
   ])
 })
@@ -469,6 +497,29 @@ test("a control reads back what it published", async ({ page }) => {
   await expect(lamp).toHaveText("Off")
 })
 
+/**
+ * A locked dashboard, read and arranged on the desktop grid.
+ *
+ * mobile.spec.ts guards this same setting through the stacked editor, which a
+ * phone's width routes through `DashboardView` on both the read and the
+ * arrange side. Desktop takes a second path once editing starts — `?edit=true`
+ * swaps in `<GridLayout>` directly, which never mounts `LockedProvider` at
+ * all — so this is the same guard through the branch that path never reaches.
+ */
+test("a locked dashboard locks when read, not while arranged", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  const lamp = page.getByRole("button", { name: "Lamp" })
+
+  await page.goto(`/dashboards/${lockedName}`)
+  await lamp.waitFor({ timeout: 15000 })
+  await expect(lamp, "a locked dashboard being read").toBeDisabled()
+
+  await page.goto(`/dashboards/${lockedName}?edit=true`)
+  await lamp.waitFor({ timeout: 15000 })
+  await expect(lamp, "a locked dashboard being arranged").toBeEnabled()
+})
+
 test("an unbound widget says so and takes nothing down", async ({ page }) => {
   const crashes: string[] = []
   page.on("pageerror", (error) => crashes.push(error.message))