To remove it just run the following command in a terminal window: sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver Having both applications installed at the same time may produce bugs or regressions, so it is recommended to remove XScreenSaver. Light Locker uses LightDM to lock the screen, merging the functionality of the login screen and the lock screen.
#Xscreensaver ubuntu 14.04 uninstall upgrade
The one caveat is that your screensaver will apparently not kick in if your session is already at a login prompt, the screen will simply turn off.The first point release of 14.04 just came out a few days ago and many LTS users waited for this to upgrade from 12.04 – in fact do-release-upgrade only offers the LTS to LTS upgrade after the first point release for stability reasons. When you wake your system, you will find it locked and asking for your password.
Then still under Brightness & Lock, set "Lock screen after:" to "Screen turns off".Īnd you're done! If your system is idle for the set amount of time, the screensaver will kick in, and in the background your session will also lock. Set "Turn screen off when inactive for x minutes" to the same value as you set xscreensavers "Blank after x minutes" setting (e.g. Ensure "Lock screen after" is UNCHECKED.įinally, go to System Settings / Brightness & Lock. Set the "Blank after x minutes" to your desired amount (e.g. You need to bring up the xscreensaver config app. Add a new entry to launch the xscreensaver daemon on startup as xscreensaver -no-splash. Xscreensaver needs to be launched at startup via "Startup Applications" (hit Super and type "Startup"). Ok I've resolved this issue now, and am posting the solution for anyone else that wants to do the same as I have. So I'm wondering if they're conflicting somehow? I would have thought that if xscreensaver was configured to not lock the screen, but have Ubuntu configured to lock the screen, then the 2 should work together.
Under the GNOME heading it asks you to modify the same file as before, that also doesn't exist. I then found a slightly different version of the man page here: I've tried following the steps under the apps man page, however it requests me to modify /usr/share/applications/sktop which doesn't exist (I believe because gnome-screensaver-preferences is no longer shipped with gnome-screensaver, and is uninstalled in any case). I was actually wondering if this was due to the removal of gnome-screensaver. The options I've tried setting are ensuring that "Lock" is enabled, and setting "lock screen after" to 5 minutes. I've tried playing around with various configurations under System Settings / Brightness & Lock. In case you're wondering, yes I'm waiting until after short timeout where it would otherwise allow me to wake up the session without needing to type your password. If I wait 5 minutes, the screensaver starts up as expected, however when I move the mouse I find it returns me to an unlocked session. I've added an entry to the startup applications to run "xscreensaver -no-splash". I have Ubuntu 14.04 64bit installed on my laptop, and have removed gnome-screensaver using "sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver". I know this is possible because I have this configuration working on a different machine, but I don't believe anything special was performed to make it happen. I'd like xscreensaver to lock my session using the standard GNOME lockscreen, instead of using the horrible 1990's xscreensaver lockscreen prompt (sorry guys but it needs a facelift).
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