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I'm still quite a noob. Sorry for my english, not a native speaker.

It's just to avoid putting password each time my dad laptop goes to sleep (basically used as a home pc and security wouldn't be a problem).

Specifically in his normal user (since I created an admin user for any pursose).

I've already allowed direct access at startup without password but I wondered if it was possible to remove the lockscreen to prompting the password access,
I already tried this by installing Screensaver Preferences (absent in this ubuntu 19.10) but it didn't work.

UPDATE 1

FORGET THAT ANSWER I GAVE...

After a shutting down and starting that pc just shows a black screen instead of a choosing the user to login with.
Fuuu...

UPDATE 2

I've read this similar black screen login issue but pressing:

  • Ctrl + Alt + F1
    or

  • Ctrl + Alt + F2

    didn't do much for me, at least It appeared the a blinking _ but I couldn't input anything

So I just Ctrl + Alt + Canc and that rebooted the pc.
To my surprise now automatic access worked just fine, so I decided to uncheck the automatic access at login from Settings->Details->Users

Should it all be ok now?
I have already uninstalled the Screensaver app with Ubuntu Software Center but maybe it would be better to apt purge it (not sure by which name), right?
OR
Would it be safer to deactivate lockscreen password from Editor Dconf?
But by searching "screensaver" I don't know which of these three I should modify (and I've no intention of do nothing without any confirm):

  • in /org/mate/screensaver/ a toggle for lock-enabled
  • in /org/gnome/desktop/screensaver a toggle for lock-enabled
  • in /org/gnome/desktop/screensaver (but I don't think this suite my case)
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tebkanlo
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practically the same as you did in MY SECOND ANSWER:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver ubuntu-lock-on-suspend false

... which is taken from: WinEunuuchs2Unix

* not an answer but I can't comment. sorry

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MY FIRST ANSWER

For the moment I achieved to delete the normal-user password by adapting this similar case answer to mine by running this form terminal

su - my-admin-user
sudo passwd -d my-normal-user
  • here's a quote from man passwd

-d, --delete
Delete a user's password (make it empty). This is a quick way to
disable a password for an account. It will set the named >account
passwordless.

which gave me this output

passwd: password expiry information changed

Not sure it's the best solution for this, but it seems to work fine

WARNING

Maybe it's best to uncheck Automatic Access before shuttin off/restarting the pc, as I added in question UPDATE

tebkanlo
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MY SECOND ANSWER

After adding my own solution for my specific Black Screen problem

I found out I had to solve the screensaver lockscreen with this simple command line

dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/screensaver/lock-enabled false

or with the GUI method, by going to the same path with Dconf Editor and unchecking lock-enabled

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