lightdm locking randomly | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

forest wedge Jun 30, 2024, 1:33 AM

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I use the MATE desktop. I don't know if it is related but recently tried out cinnamon, xfce, ldxe, and ubuntu environments. But ended up going back to MATE. But now at random times my desktop locks to the display manager. I have confirmed that I don't have any screensaver lock setup. And haven't been able to find a setting to get lightdm to lock if I wanted to. So I am at a loss as to what is causing this. Does anyone have any ideas?

latent sonnet Jun 30, 2024, 1:56 AM

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are you pressing Ctrl-Alt-L inadvertently? Does it happen just sitting idle, or in middle of playing any multimedia, etc?

forest wedge Jun 30, 2024, 2:12 AM

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no it is when the computer is unattended

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it is also not the same lock as I get with Ctrl-Alt-L as that is the screensaver lock and what I am getting is the Display Manager so it looks like I logged out.

latent sonnet Jun 30, 2024, 2:14 AM

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forest wedge it is also not the same lock as I get with Ctrl-Alt-L as that is the screensaver...

when you log back in, is everything as you left it, or it starts as a brand new empty session?

forest wedge Jun 30, 2024, 2:14 AM

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everything is as I left it

latent sonnet Jun 30, 2024, 2:15 AM

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seems like a "switch user" command may be getting invoked

forest wedge Jun 30, 2024, 2:17 AM

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perhaps but I am the only user with an account on the machine

forest wedge Jun 30, 2024, 2:56 AM

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it seems to not quite be as random as I thought. It is timing out at 5 minutes since last activity

forest wedge Jun 30, 2024, 3:26 AM

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I found it

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something installed "light-locker" but didn't install the settings tool along with it. I removed that package and killed the running daemon and problem solved

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