How to lock your screen from the command line

This could be very useful to you if you’re working in the terminal and need to step away for a moment. You can achieve a locked screen, just like when you do it the graphical way, with this command entered at the command line, or cli…

How to lock your screen

Locking your screen when you’re away from your computer is very important when there are other people around. You don’t want anyone messing around on your computer. In Ubuntu you can lock your screen very easily. Once your screen is locked, it will immediately start the screensaver. When someone tries to use the mouse or [...]

Xubuntu screensaver fix

There are 2 ways of doing this. One uses the already installed gnome-screensaver, and the other uses xscreensaver, which you’ll have to install.

First option — gnome-screensaver

Go to Applications > Settings > Settings Manager > Autostarted apps

Click on Add, and enter whatever name & description you like, but enter gnome-screensaver in the [...]