I upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 During the process I remember it said the lock screen would be disabled for the upgrade. I assumed that was temporary. It has not worked since. Any help is appreciated.

Usually it is because you have GDM as your login manager … or because in the past you have installed gnome-shell [image] Lockscreen not working after update to 21.10 Budgie Desktop Make sure you are using slick-greeter not gdm3. If you don’t want to use gnome-shell then …

It worked in 20.04 fine. Nothing really looks different except I can’t lock the screen. I suffer from the too much time has passed and I didn’t make notes bug. I am not sure what I did from the start and I have made tweaks along the way. There was some reason I installed gnome tweaks but don’t reme…

… and is the package gnome-shell-common installed?

Yes it is along with quite a bit gnome-2048/jammy,now 3.38.2-2 amd64 [installed,automatic] gnome-accessibility-themes/jammy,jammy,now 3.28-1ubuntu3 all [installed,automatic] gnome-bluetooth-3-common/jammy,jammy,now 42.0-5 all [installed,automatic] gnome-bluetooth-common/jammy,jammy,now 3.34.5-8 …

OK I will try that and see how it goes. Also in looking for that I found… gdm3/jammy-updates,now 42.0-1ubuntu7 amd64 [installed,automatic] lightdm/jammy,now 1.30.0-0ubuntu5 amd64 [installed,automatic]

I did run sudo apt purge gnome-shell-common yesterday. That indeed fixed the lock screen. I don’t see any unfortunate results of that purge. I mean I don’t have a bird to click with several options upon login anymore. But I didn’t use that anyways and do not recall why I had those options either. A…

Hello, I’m having the same issue where after upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 rhe lock screen doesn’t function (and I have no screen saver options in settings as well). I tried running the script and it didn’t help, I’m using lightdm. I do have gnome-shell-common installed and I wanted to purge it, but …

Yes it will remove gnome shell. No it will not remove budgie. I am not sure why ubuntu-budgie-desktop is being removed. Its a meta package. So dont worry too much. You should reinstall that afterwards.

It means I won’t have Ubuntu desktop installed, only Budgie? They can’t co-exist? Also, should I run a Budgie installation afterwards, should I prepare it in advance?

Correct. Having both budgie and gnome shell coexisting is difficult. The technical issue is that both gnome-shell and budgie uses the same underlying process called gnome-settings-daemon that manages power and screenlocking amongst many other things. That process tries to lock things via dbus … bu…

Lock screen no longer works after 22.04 upgrade

Budgie Desktop

fossfreedom August 19, 2022, 6:02am 6

sudo apt purge gnome-shell-common

That is enough to make the lock screen work again.

Can't lock the computer

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