# Lock screen not working in 21.10

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/lock-screen-not-working-in-21-10/5466>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [November 8, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/lock-screen-not-working-in-21-10/5466 "2021-11-08T12:01:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![KingNai](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/kingnai/32/4265_2.png) [@KingNai](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/KingNai)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 7:11am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/lock-screen-not-working-in-21-10/5466/17 "2023-02-14T07:11:02Z")

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Take a look at the below post. The gsetting is what was doing it for me. Once I set disable-lock-screen to false, I was able to lock using normal methods.

I am not sure why this setting changed, but it did for me.

> [@Lockscreen not working after update to 21.10](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/lockscreen-not-working-after-update-to-21-10/5394/40):
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> I fixed my problem, so I’ll share the solution just in case it helps anyone. I enabled gnome-screensaver debugging by doing this: pkill gnome-screensaver gnome-screensaver --no-deamon --debug 2\>&1 | tee ~/g-ss.log Then in the log file, I noticed it was saying Locking disabled by the administrator whenever I tried to lock. I found these two settings: gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-enabled gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen Both of these were true,…

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