Whenever you leave your computer unattended, you should either turn it off or manually activate the screen lock that requires you to enter your password to resume working. You should manually lock your screen even if your device is configured for an automatic screenlock after a set number of minutes. Locking your display screen will protect the information stored on or accessible from your device.
When you manually lock your screen, the computer is continuing to run in the background, so you don't need to close out of documents or apps. You are just putting the display to sleep. You'll be able to quickly unlock the screen when you return, without restarting your computer.
When my screen is locked and I then reawaken it, by moving the mouse or pressing the keyboard, the password entry screen appears. How can I change the amount of time that is taken before the password entry screen turns off?
In my Brightness and Lock settings I have the screen set to turn off and lock after 10 minutes, but I can't see a setting to determine how long it takes for the screen to turn off after the lock screen has been woken. It seems to be set to 1 minute by default, can this be increased/reduced?
You can customize your lock screen. Try changing the background to a favorite photo or slide show. You can also choose quick status notifications to show you upcoming calendar events, social network updates, or other app and system notifications.
If you chose Windows spotlight for your lock screen, you can test if it's working correctly. Press Windows logo key + L to lock your device. The Windows spotlight image should appear on the lock screen.
If you don't see the Windows spotlight image when you're signing in, select Start > Settings > Personalization > Lock screen. Check that the toggle for Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen is turned on.
If you chose Windows spotlight for your lock screen, you can test if it's working correctly. Press Windows logo key + L to lock your device. The Windows spotlight image should appear on the lock screen.
If you don't see the Windows spotlight image when you're signing in, select Start > Settings > Personalization > Lock screen . Then make sure Show lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen is turned on.
There was some confusion where people think disabling the Lock screen also disables the screen saver which is invoked after a certain period of inactivity. The screen saver requires input to get your desktop back. Some people may want the screen saver to come on but not have it locked when waking up the screen.
By default, GNOME Power Manager supports a simple locking scheme. Thismeans that the screen will lock if set to Lock screen ingnome-screensaver when the lid is closed, or the system performs asuspend or hibernate action.
There is a complex locking scheme available for power users thatallows locking policy to change for the lid, suspend and hibernateactions. To enable this complex mode, you will have to disable theGConf key:
I would like to have a display manager (or at least something that acts like one) in my wayland setup, like I did with LightDM in my xorg setup. I've installed greetd with the gtkgreet greeter, but I'm not sure how it is supposed to be used. More specifically, I'm not sure how to lock my computer so that it'll go back to the greeter for login.
Currently when my system wakes up from sleep, it just shows the desktop. I saw that many people use swaylock, but swaylock has a login screen of its own, instead of the greeter that I want to use. So is it possible to have my system wake up to the greetd greeter?
Hard reset seems to be the only thing that works, but then it comes back. I am to the fu**ing boiling point now with this effing bug. Please Apple, fix it. I don't want to have to restart my GD phone 5 times a day because the music widget is on the lock screen.
Having the same issue. It comes on when I turn off my car so I think it might be a bluetooth issue. I rebooted the phone, didn't play any media, and it still appeared on the lock screen. Hope Apple fixes this soon!
Update: I reset my phone and went to a meeting. When I came out, the music player was on my lock screen. No bluetooth, no media was played. It just appeared. My next step is to delete the music app and reinstall it. But I think I'll lose all my playlists. ?
I've never been a bit fan of xfce4-screensaver, but I was messing with it the other day, uninstalled it, installed xscreensaver, messed with it, uninstalled it too, and now find that when I close the lid on my laptop I am presented with a dialog:
I created a new user, logged into a new XFCE session via LightDM, set "When laptop lid is closed", to "Suspend" in Power Manager settings, and enabled "Lock screen before sleep" in the Session and Startup settings.
Setting logind-handle-lid-switch back to 'false' again results in the "None of the screen lock tools ran successfully, the screen will not be locked. [...]" dialog being displayed on lid close. 'xflock4' via xfce4-terminal still works.
Setting 'logind-handle-lid-switch' to 'false', installing 'light-locker' and running it with 'light-locker --no-late-locking', setting xfce 'LockCommand' to 'light-locker-control -l' produces the right behavior, but it seems a little clunky.
I was experiencing this symptom, but none of the above solutions were working. I found out that this was because I had previously disabled the screen lock because I did not want the screen to lock when the screensaver starts.
Sorry for abusing old threads but I looked too for this issue and want to share my experiences without opening a new thread for this, to avoid more waste data. Today I figured out that both lock screen (like mentioned above) and monitor standby was disabled. And gnome-screensaver was removed. But I didn't disabled both of them nor removed gnome-screensaver. What the heck is going on here?! What did disable them?
I also suffered when turning off the screen, could only turn off the computer. But for myself, I found a solution: Ctrl + Alt + F1 a terminal without a graphical shell will appear and immediately a Ctrl + Alt + F8 will be prompted to log in. Good luck.
A lock screen is a computer user interface element used by various operating systems. They regulate immediate access to a device by requiring the user to perform a certain action in order to receive access, such as entering a password, using a certain button combination, or performing a certain gesture using a device's touchscreen. There are various authentication methods to get past the lock screen, with the most popular and common ones being personal identification numbers (PINs), the Android pattern lock, and biometrics (e.g. Touch ID and facial recognition).[1]
Depending on the operating system and device type, a lock screen can range from a simple login screen, to an overview screen with the current date and time, weather, recent notifications, playback controls for media being played in the background (typically music), shortcuts to applications (such as the camera), and optionally, the contact information of the device's owner (which can be used in the event that the device is lost or stolen, or during a medical emergency).[2][3][4]
Mobile operating system that run on smartphones and tablets typically use a gesture based lock-screen. Phones manufactured by Neonode were unlocked by swiping to the right on its touchscreen. Apple's iOS, used by the iPhone and iPad lines, utilized a similar unlock mechanism until iOS 10, with an on-screen slider slid to the right. Beginning on iOS 5, sliding in the other direction sends the user directly to the camera app. On iOS 7, the slider widget was removed as part of a larger overhaul of the iOS interface, and users could now swipe from any point on the screen. The lock screen also displays a clock, notifications, and provides audio playback controls.[5][6] iOS 10 made major changes to the lock screen, replacing the sliding gesture with pressing the Home button. Swiping is still used to access the camera, as well as an additional page to the left with widgets.[7][8] As the iPhone X and iPad Pro do not have physical home buttons, the user must swipe upwards from the bottom of the screen instead.[9][10]
At first, Android did not use a gesture-based lock screen, electing to require the user to press the phone's Menu button. On Android 2.0, a new gesture-based lock screen was introduced, displaying two icons: one for unlocking the phone, and one for setting the volume mode, activated by dragging the relevant icon to the center of the screen on a curve (similarly to a rotary dial). On Android 2.1, the rotary dial was replaced by two tabs on either end of the screen.[11] Android 3.0 introduced a new design: a ball with a padlock icon is dragged to the outside of a circular area.[12] On 4.0, the option to unlock straight to the camera is provided, while 4.1 adds the ability to unlock into a Google Search screen by dragging up.[13][14] Android 4.2 makes additional changes to the lock screen, allowing users to add widgets to pages accessible on the lock screen by swiping from the left edge of the screen. The camera is accessed in a similar manner by swiping from the right edge of the screen.[14] Android also allows devices to be locked using either a password, passcode, a pattern on a grid of 9 circles, fingerprint sensing, or facial recognition.[11]
Android distributions by other manufacturers typically use different lock screen designs than what stock Android utilizes; some versions of HTC's Sense used a metallic ring dragged from the bottom of the screen to unlock the phone, and also allows users to launch apps by dragging their respective shortcut icon into the ring instead.[15] On Samsung devices, the lock screen involves dragging in any direction from any location on the screen (TouchWiz Nature devices, such as the Galaxy S III and S4, are also accompanied by a visual effect, such as a pond ripple or lens flare); similarly to HTC's lock screen, app shortcuts can be dragged up from the bottom of the screen to unlock directly into them.[16][17]
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