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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?

To be specific:

  • I lock my screen Ctrl+Alt+T
  • Screen goes blank
  • Move mouse to bring up login screen
  • If I do nothing else the screen turns off again after 1 minute

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?

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  • May I know why do you want to change that option? – Khurshid Alam Jul 07 '13 at 13:36
  • I am about to go back to 13. I can't find a way to keep the machine from locking itself about every ten minutes. I am so over it. –  Jun 13 '14 at 16:26
  • Not sure but this might be some of your help How to adjust screen lock settings on Linux desktop You might need to install dconf-editor – Prabhat Kumar Singh Jan 09 '15 at 10:58
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    @KhurshidAlam, May I answer for the asker? For example, when you work in two environments in one computer - Windows as a host machine and Ubuntu in VM. So sometimes Ubuntu locks your session when it is not desirable. – Green Aug 13 '15 at 03:46
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    A maximum of 15 minutes before the screen blanks isn't a very long time. Would really like to see a 30 minutes or even 60 minute option. It's very annoying when the screen begins to blank in the middle of a video. – Matt Mar 07 '18 at 01:54
  • I couldn't agree more to Matt's comment. In 2019, still. I don't want to have to unlock every time I leave my computer for 15 minutes (maximum allowed time in settings), so I end up disabling this feature completely and unnecessarily. Why not leave a little more choice to the user? – Hinz May 13 '19 at 07:11

5 Answers5

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Ubuntu 17.04 and earlier (Unity)

Open System Settings, click Brightness & Lock and select a value for the screen turn off option, Turn screen off when inactive for:

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Choose your time delay in the drop-down menu.

Ubuntu 17.10+ (Gnome Shell)

Check this question.

Pablo Bianchi
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siraj
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You can not do that anymore in Gnome3.

In gnome2 you can change lock-screen timeout from gnome-screensaver settings.But In Gnome 3.2, gnome-screensaver doesn't exist, and screen locking is part of Gnome Shell.

They have reimplement some function, but not all. On Ubuntu you can access all power-related settings with dconf-editor from org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.

OR

You can use x-screensaver as described here:

How can I change or install screensavers?

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Khurshid Alam
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Just had the same problem but could not resolve the issue with the answer provided by Kurshid Alam. On Gnome 3.28 using dconf-editor:

The screen saver turns on automatically when the session is considered idle

org . gnome . desktop . screensaver . idle-activation-enabled

The easiest way to delay the screensaver is to increase the time limit for idle

org . gnome . desktop . session . idle-delay

Or using terminal

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay $((15*60)) && \
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-delay 0 && \
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-enabled true

Beware of possible impacts on laptop battery charge due to other services affected by the idle status.

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RinesRada
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    duplicated question/answer at https://askubuntu.com/questions/1042641/how-to-set-custom-lock-screen-time-in-ubuntu-18-04 – RinesRada Jun 14 '18 at 10:45
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Settings -> Power -> disable dim screen when inactive & set blank screen to never

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    Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Whilst this may answer the question it is not quite clear what this setting does exactly. Please elaborate your answer adding explanations. – dessert Nov 26 '17 at 16:33
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Press the windows button to get the unity search, then type lock in the search bar. Open brightness and lock and change the timeout.

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