how to stop screen lock

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Tue Nov 1 18:50:07 UTC 2022


At Tue, 1 Nov 2022 14:29:15 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 9:54 AM Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hey there,
> >
> > Jerry Geis wrote:
> >
> > >However - if am doing something slightly different. the
> > >Control-alt-f3 - goes out of that "mode" and when I switch back
> > >I get a login screen.
> > >
> > >How do I "ignore" that change of input - or change of screen.... In
> > >my use that is "ok".
> > >Is there something in X that also needs set ?
> >
> > Are either of these of any use?
> >
> >
> > https://askubuntu.com/questions/466662/how-to-disable-password-prompt-for-switching-users-in-graphical-session
> >
> >
> > https://askubuntu.com/questions/1005457/disable-ctrl-alt-ls-behavior-of-locking-the-screen
> >
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> >
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> 
> Thanks - did find anything there I had not tried.
> 
> I did my control-alt-f3 - and went back - I then looked at the xorg.0.log
> file
> systemd-logind suspend
> systemd-logind -resume
> 
> are the couple messages I see. What do  I do about that ?

I just read the man pages for systemd-logind, and my guess is that if you edit 
/etc/systemd/logind.conf and change the line

#HandleSuspendKey=suspend
to
HandleSuspendKey=ignore

You *might* get what you want.

> 
> Jerry
> 

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