Ubuntu – How to disable the lock screen when resuming from suspend or hibernate without losing ability to lock screen manually

11.10hibernatelock-screensuspend

I would like to bypass the password prompt after resuming from suspend or hibernate in Ubuntu 11.10. I tried:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen 'true'

But doing so I couldn't lock the screen manually any more by hitting Ctrl+Alt+L. It also removed the "Lock Screen" menu item on the power button menu that I get when I click on the top right of the screen. I would like to keep these two features while just removing the lock screen when the system resumes. Any ideas?

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In 12.04 the option to turn off the screen lock does not remove the option to lock the screen from the power/cog button.

Click the power/cog button in upper right
Go to system settings
Click on Brightness and Lock
Slide the slider for Lock to off

All done!

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You can do that by using the following:

gnome-screensaver-command --lock && dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

In a keyboard shortcut you need to put sh -c "<command>" replacing <command> with the command above, like:

sh -c "gnome-screensaver-command --lock && dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend"

If the above command does not work, you can also try using a shell script file (for example suspend_lockscreen.sh). First create the file call the following commands in a console:

cd ~
echo "gnome-screensaver-command --lock" >> suspend_lockscreen.sh
echo "dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend" >> suspend_lockscreen.sh
chmod +x suspend_lockscreen.sh

That will create a file named suspend_lockscreen.sh in the user home folder. Then, in the shortcut just call: ./suspend_lockscreen.sh.

Note: gnome-screensaver-command can be replaced by xscreensaver-command, as pointed out in one comment.

Ubuntu – 12.04 Lock screen and password prompt skipped after resume from suspend

You actually just need to have gnome-screensaver installed and running.

I needed to add it to the list of apps to start when signing in.

Require password after suspend is a setting for this piece of software.

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