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Peter Cassetta
Asked: 2014-08-19 14:29:36 +0800 CST

How can I get the new 14.04 lock screen back?

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For some reason my lock screen changed a while ago from the new one introduced in 14.04 to the one used in older versions. I'm not sure what I may have done to have caused this.

How can I get the new one back?

14.04

1 Answers

  1. Please press < Alt + F2 > and type/run

    gnome-screensaver-command -l

    and see if that gets you what you want. What I suspect is that you may have installed some software at some point that changes which command Unity uses for it's screen locking mechanism. If the command I provided does what you want, then I have two different things you can try.

    1. Reinstall gnome-screensaver

      sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver
sudo apt-get install gnome-screensaver

    2. If the original command worked as you had hoped but the issue persists after trying solution #1, then open the system settings menu, select the keyboard section, and create a custom keyboard shortcut with that command in it and map it to whatever combination you would like to use to lock your screen.

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