I want to keep energy saving (12 minutes) but don't like the lock screen with the watch, whenever I come back. This two things unfortunately seem interlinked in Gnome.
How can I get rid of the watch screen / curtain?
I want to keep energy saving (12 minutes) but don't like the lock screen with the watch, whenever I come back. This two things unfortunately seem interlinked in Gnome.
How can I get rid of the watch screen / curtain?
Lots of people are annoyed by this "Screen Shield" or "Curtain" or "Swipe to Unlock" as it is can be called. This Ask Ubuntu question has 33 up-votes: How to remove "phone style" Gnome swipe to unlock
The answer with the most votes states:
Open Ubuntu Software and install the GNOME Shell Extension called:
Disable Screen Shield
This works for Ubuntu 18.04
Source: Disable Screen Shield
Note most users say it works with 18.04, but one commented it doesn't work. It could just be s/he didn't install it correctly.
while true; do [ $(xprintidle) -ge 300000 ] && xset dpms force off ; sleep 1 ; done
Thexprintidle
is separate package so you'll need to install that withapt
, and outputs number in milliseconds, so that's 300 seconds there or 5 mins. Let me know if you want this as full and automated answer. – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Sep 29 '18 at 10:01.desktop
file. The way autostart works on GNOME or any other GNOME-based desktop ( like Unity or Mate ) is by placing such file into~/.config/autostart
directory. The GUI tools like Startup Applications just do that behind the scenes, so there's no difference. As for that clock thing, disabling is done via methods described in https://askubuntu.com/q/970900/295286 – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Sep 29 '18 at 18:08