Yesterday I updated 21.04 to 21.10 and was looking at the terminal in the meanwhile when I noticed the installer had disabled the lockscreen. I’ve been unable to use it ever since. So far the following yielded no results: WIN + L; Setting up the blank time to 1 min and automatic lock screen delay …

So this is what I came up with: #!/bin/bash if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep gnome-screensaver > /dev/null then echo "gnome-screensaver is not running" echo "starting gnome-screensaver ..." pkill -9 -f '/usr/bin/gjs /usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.ScreenSaver' sleep 3 gnome-screensaver …

That allowed me to lock the screen with WIN+L

right … so its question of crafting a bash script now that can be autostarted. It will need to test if gnome-screensaver is running if not - run that pkill command above, sleep 5, followed by gnome-screensaver.

pkill -9 -f /usr/bin/gjs /usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.ScreenSaver The two pkill commands should just be one as above.

Had to run them separately because your command returns this: pkill: only one pattern can be provided Try `pkill --help' for more information.

Will give this a try. I’m new to the Linux structure but should be capable of pasting this into terminal. again thanks! Will let you know if it also works on 20.04.

Open gedit, copy the following and paste it into gedit, save it as screensaver-autorun.sh in a place where you’re not gonna move it. Then in the menu search for ‘Startup Applications’, click add, give it a name and in ‘Command’ click ‘Browse’ and select screensaver-autorun.sh. That should do it …

Note to all … if you don’t use gnome-shell then this solution is easier and quicker to do [image] Lock screen not working in 21.10 So to remove GDM3 sudo apt purge gdm3 To remove gnome-shell-common sudo apt purge gnome-shell-common Remember you can in Ubuntu install …

[UPDATED] I have been struggling with the same issue stemming from the same update. These instructions worked perfectly for me. Thank you all for this. Cheers! (the original post mentioned an issue with the ‘x’ key on my laptop which has since been determined to be unrelated)

Lockscreen broke for me too - but that script didn’t work for me so I modified it to work. #!/bin/bash if ! pgrep -f gnome-screensaver &> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "gnome-screensaver is not running" echo "starting gnome-screensaver ..." pkill -9 -f '/usr/bin/gjs /usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gn…

Lockscreen not working after update to 21.10

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fossfreedom October 17, 2021, 10:25am 20

Ah … missing single quotes

pkill -9 -f  '/usr/bin/gjs /usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.ScreenSaver'

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