Can't lock screen with shortcut on Ubuntu 20.04 gnome
Solution 1
My original question was banned as bug, but it isn't a bug - it's a wrong configuration. People faced this problem a lot in the internet and SO:
In my case I was using lightdm and screen lock is disabled in it due security issues. Read more here
You can check you display manager with: sudo systemctl status display-manager
If you still want to lock your screen with lightdm - you can use dm-tool lock
. Also you can add it to keyboard shortcut as command (e.g. Super+L
).
Switching to gdm3 helped: sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
Solution 2
I face same problem after I switched my display-manager to lightdm. (because I prefer the design of lightdm over gdm)
However, I still want to lock the screen with keyboard shortcut.
So this is what I did:
Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts > '+'
Name : lightdm_lockscreen
Command : dm-tool lock
Shortcut : Super+L (I edited original Lock Screen shortcut to other combination)
In my case, Super+L enables the lock of the screen perfectly with this setting. Enjoy :)
littleguga
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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littleguga over 1 year
In shortcuts i have Super + L for locking screen. But on pressing it - nothing happens. In syslog:
gsd-media-keys[1979]: Couldn't lock screen: Cannot invoke method; proxy is for the well-known name org.gnome.ScreenSaver without an owner, and proxy was constructed with the G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_DO_NOT_AUTO_START flag
Locking from interface works fine.
System info: Ubuntu 19.04 upgraded to 20.04
Linux laptop 5.4.0-21-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Sat Mar 28 13:10:28 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Release: 20.04 Codename: focal
GNOME Shell 3.36.1
Other info:
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-enabled = true gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen = false
gnome-screensaver 3.6.1
I also tried:
gnome-screensaver-command -l
but nothing happens.I already tried to reinstall gnome-shell and gnome-screensaver - it didn't help.
How to fix locking screen from hotkey?
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ToughMind over 3 yearshow to use dm-tool lock with
super + L
? I have to insist with lightdm, but I also want to lock the screen with shotcuts. Thanks -
littleguga over 3 years@ToughMind add custom keyboard shortcut. Search "shortcuts" in your System Settings or find this section in Keyboard settings.