How to lock user upon sleep or suspend?

Support & Help Requests
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I am using Ubuntu Mate 16.04. How do I lock the system when it goes to sleep or suspend?

I need to to display the lock screen when the system wakes from sleep.

Thank You

Feby

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Sytem, Preferences, Look and Feel, Screensaver, checkmark “Lock screen when screensaver is active”. You will then be required to enter your password to gain entrance to the desktop.

3

Hi @feby,

you would be better off using a simple “Log Out” as sleep/suspend/hibernate in Ubuntu can cause problems!, just a suggestion. :smiley:

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Thank you. I would never have looked in screen saver settings. Haha!

5

What kind of problems?

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You are entirely welcome feby.

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Hi @feby,

things like the system freezing, not being able to go back to the desktop and generally things that cause the system to become unresponsive!. :smiley:

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Oh I’ve had those kind of issues with Ubuntu in the past, amazingly it is not happening now!

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Hi @feby,

there might be something for you here but I don’t use any screen savers or suspend functions myself so I don’t really know!:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SessionHandling