How do I stop the screen from being locked on suspend?

Question

On GNOME the screen locks when I suspend, and I find that a bit annoying (no one else in the house uses ubuntu anyway haha). What can I do to stop this?

score 36 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 21 '11 at 17:06

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For 11.10

What worked for me on Ubuntu 11.10 is to execute the following in a terminal:

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

You can also install dconf-tools and use dconf-editor to set the same setting manually.

edited Oct 21 '11 at 17:06

Jorge Castro

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answered Oct 21 '11 at 16:08

Florian Echtler

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score 19 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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For 13.04

Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type the following:

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

edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

Community

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answered Aug 28 '13 at 10:09

Alaa Ali

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score 8 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 21 '11 at 17:06

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For 11.04 and earlier:

Edit your acpi-support file by pressing Alt + F2 and pasting

gksu gedit /etc/default/acpi-support
Find the line that says LOCK_SCREEN=true and comment it out to disable screen locking on resume.

edited Oct 21 '11 at 17:06

Jorge Castro

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answered Dec 13 '10 at 18:09

karthick87

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 16 '12 at 01:00

For 12.04

In the Top-right position of the panel, Click on the Settings Icon, Choose System Settings. Choose System Settings -> Brightness and Lock.

Disable the Lock by Clicking on the Toggle Switch Button. This will prevent Automatic lock when system suspends.

You can of course Lock it by Pressing Ctrl+Alt+L Key combination always.

score 3 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 21 '11 at 17:06

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For 11.04 and earlier:

Run gconf-editor, then under /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock uncheck the suspend checkbox.

edited Oct 21 '11 at 17:06

Jorge Castro

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answered Jan 14 '11 at 20:49

argentpepper

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 23 '22 at 10:12

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On Ubuntu 22.04:

Open Settings -> Privacy -> Screen -> Lock Screen on Suspend

answered Aug 23 '22 at 10:12

Emilio

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score 2 · Answer 7 · edited Oct 21 '11 at 17:07

For 11.04 and earlier:

Did you verify that the option in the screen-saver about LOCKING the PC is off. Go to System > Preferences > Screensaver

Verify that Lock Screen when Screensaver is active is turned off. Also verify that Activate Screensaver when computer is idle is off too.

Looking around i found that you can also edit several Power Management options via the gconf-editor.

Press ALT+F2 and type gconf-editor

Go to: Apps > Gnome-Power-Manager > Lock

Check the option use screensaver settings This way it checks for the option you put in the screensaver window.

There might be other options there that will help you like gnome_keyring_hibernate and gnome_keyring_suspend (If they use the keyring they might be the ones asking for the password when locked)

This are EXTREME cases please let me know if they work so i can copy them here and make a reference:

First do this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9509427&postcount=10

Then do this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9756347&postcount=11

score 2 · Answer 8 · edited Oct 21 '11 at 17:07

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For 11.04 and earlier:

If you disable the screen lock by setting /desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_lock_screen, you will not need to unlock the screensaver when you resume from suspend.

gconftool -s /desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_lock_screen -t bool true

This works for me on Ubuntu 10.04.

edited Oct 21 '11 at 17:07

Jorge Castro

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answered Mar 26 '11 at 20:28

score 2 · Answer 9 · edited Oct 05 '15 at 11:23

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On Lubuntu 13.10 :

Open Preferences
Open Xfce Power Manager
Open ? Extended and untick The Lock screen when going for suspend/hibernate box.

edited Oct 05 '15 at 11:23

A.B.

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answered Nov 08 '13 at 17:13

pete

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