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 …

Lockscreen not working after update to 21.10

Budgie Desktop

fossfreedom January 26, 2022, 6:50pm 33

By install GDM3 this installs gnome-shell-common as well as gnome-shell.

Likewise, as you mentioned, people who started of on “Ubuntu” with gnome-shell and then installed budgie.

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