Solved How to disable the account pause (screensaver?)

[carlcaulkett]

Hello. Something which is really annoying me is the way that Gnome under FreeBSD seems to impose an inactivity lock, every couple of minutes (it seems). When the account is locked I get a screen with this pattern all over it...

Pressing escape leads me to this dialog, completion of which lets me carry on with my life.

As far as I know, I have vt enabled. This is my /boot/loader.conf...

What can I do to suppress this unwelcome interruption to my life?

 

[carlcaulkett]

As you can see, I've tried adding the vidcontrol -t off command but this seemed to cause an error message when I booted.

 

[ShelLuser]

This has nothing to do with regular FreeBSD services but is tied to the Gnome framework. So you won't be able to influence this through /boot/loader.conf in any way. You should probably check Gnome's user configuration and in specific check the screensaver settings.

That's where you'd normally find options to lock a session after a small timeout period.

 

[carlcaulkett]

Good point! I shall investigate Gnome's config options further.

 

[carlcaulkett]

I've spent about an hour wading through out-of-date posts pointing to further or non-existent posts. Not surprisingly I cannot find anything that works. I found an option within the Gnome Configuration utility for the /desktop/gnome/accessibility/keyboard/timeout setting. This I changed from 200 to 200000 but that didn't work.

Here's a direct question. Has anyone got any direct experience of this actual problem and do they have a specific, easy to understand (within reasonable limits) explanation of how to fix it?

 

[ShelLuser]

Well, Google can always help:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28281077/how-do-i-disable-the-gnome-desktop-screen-lock

https://superuser.com/questions/267637/how-can-i-change-the-time-before-the-system-locks

They all point at the screensaver settings.

 

[ldgc]

If you don't want GNOME to automatically lock the screen after a period of time then Settings > Privacy > Automatic Screen Lock > Off and Settings > Power > Power Saving > Black Screen > Never should do it.

 

[carlcaulkett]

Well, Google can always help:

I have chosen to forgive you as I am sure that you didn't intend to sound quite so condescending.

 

[carlcaulkett]

If you don't want GNOME to automatically lock the screen after a period of time then Settings > Privacy > Automatic Screen Lock > Off and Settings > Power > Power Saving > Black Screen > Never should do it.

That sounds like just the ticket. I'll know for sure in just over 5 minutes. Thanks!

 

[ldgc]

carlcaulkett Did my suggestion solve your problem?

 

[carlcaulkett]

Sorry for the delay! It certainly did, thanks! However, in an entirely unconnected move, I decided to install XFCE, and I have to say that I prefer it. Nothing personal towards Gnome aficionados but, you know... different strokes for different folks!

 

[ldgc]

Please mark the thread as [Solved] so that other users with the same problem know that there is a solution.

 

[carlcaulkett]

This will probably annoy certain individuals, but there's no obvious way to mark the thread as [Solved]. I cannot see a way to edit the thread title.

 

[SirDice]

Edit the first post of the thread.

 

[Sejoslaw]

If you don't want GNOME to automatically lock the screen after a period of time then Settings > Privacy > Automatic Screen Lock > Off and Settings > Power > Power Saving > Black Screen > Never should do it.

If anyone ever will find this thread, this is how it looks now in Gnome 42 - try search for "screen" and check "Screen Lock" option

Also for the battery: