How to lock the screen in GNOME
I’m sure that many of you are used with the <Win>+<L> key combination in
windows, to lock the screen. In Ubuntu (the distro I use), the
corespondent shortcut is <CTRL>+<ALT>+<L>. But, in many other distros
there is no shortcut for this command. Here is what you can do to assign a shortcut for locking the screen. (In order to do that, you have to activate the Win key. Read “How to use the Win key in Linux” to find out how to do it.)
Open the gconf-editor by typing “gconf-editor” in the terminal.
nongeek@mma:~$ gconf-editor
Go to: apps>metacity>keybinding_commands
There is a much simpler way to ‘lock’ the screen for me – Ctrt+Alt+F1
No one here knows the Alt-F7 combination to go back to the graphics mode
Binny V A
May 21, 2008 at 5:16 pm
u must b kidding baby….:-)
everyone knows abt it…
M.Iftikhar Alam
September 23, 2010 at 1:55 am
qdinar
February 23, 2011 at 6:15 am
nongeekboy
May 21, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Indivisibly!
Indivisibly
June 19, 2008 at 12:51 pm
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November 10, 2008 at 12:49 pm
@Binny V A hahaha, I hit ctrl-alt-f1 without really reading the next line and panicked because I didn’t expect the linux ‘shell”. Thankfully I remembered that the function keys are mapped to different virtual desktops and one of them is the gnome screen, so after a few tries I found that ctrl-alt-f7 brought me back. then i read the rest of the post and saw that you mentioned that! lol
anon
November 29, 2011 at 12:49 am