Ubuntu 21.10 Budgie Screenlock

Quee · 11-08-2021, 10:50 PM

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 21.10 with the Budgie desktop, and the screenlock has not worked since. I have adjusted the settings in Privacy, but nothing seems to work. Anyone else having issues with this?

The documentation says it also has a screensaver, but I've seen no sign of that. But I would be happy if the screenlock would just give me a blank screen after 10 minutes.

shruggy · 11-09-2021, 03:49 AM

Budgie docs say Super+L is the shortcut.

Quee · 11-09-2021, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by shruggy

Budgie docs say Super+L is the shortcut.

Thanks for your reply, shruggy. That is the correct key sequence to activate the screenlock - if it is working. It does not work on my PC, hence my question.

shruggy · 11-09-2021, 04:33 PM

A similar issue. The advice there was to install an alternative screen locker.

Ubuntu has many (i3lock, light-locker, suckless-tools, swaylock, xsecurelock, xtrlock, etc.). Besides screen lockers, there are some helper tools (xautolock, xidle, xss-lock, xssproxy) as well as utilities like xscreensaver, rsibreak and safeeyes that provide a screen locking capability among others.

Quee · 11-09-2021, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by shruggy

A similar issue. The advice there was to install an alternative screen locker.

Ubuntu has many (i3lock, light-locker, suckless-tools, swaylock, xsecurelock, xtrlock, etc.). Besides screen lockers, there are some helper tools (xautolock, xidle, xss-lock, xssproxy) as well as utilities like xscreensaver, rsibreak and safeeyes that provide a screen locking capability among others.

Thank you, I will give one of those a try. I did have xscreensaver installed, but shortly afterward the Budgie desktop disappeared and I had to re-install it. Not sure if I'm right, but I blamed xscreensaver as that was the last change I made.