lightdm and screen timeout to lock

[Jerry Geis]

On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 9:32 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 3:01 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to get lightdm to timeout and lock the screen - no luck so
>> far.
>>
>> What is the trick? Why doesnt it take the "settings" options.
>>
>
>  On the off chance that you have more than one display manager installed,
> try this:
>
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
>
> If you have more than one display manager, you will choose the one you
> want. (I just tried it on my much-upgraded Ubuntu laptop, and I have THREE,
> including lightdm, but it's not the active one.)
>
> Presumably after changing it, you would want to reboot or (otherwise
> restart your display manager) and see if it begins behaving as you expect.
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hi Tommy -

I did uninstall gdm, in that process  - I have run dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
and have also rebooted since.
The setting says after timeout of 5 minute - but that never happens.

Jerry
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