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Screen Lock in GNOME

GNOME is one of the window environments available on DICE. (There are others - see Window managers.)

To lock the screen in GNOME, either select the lock icon which is found at the right-end of the bar at the top of the screen:

Or press the left Super key (the key which usually has a Microsoft Windows logo, typically between Ctrl and Alt), then type lock, then select the DICE Screen Lock icon which appears.

Note that normally in GNOME a keyboard shortcut (Windows-L, also called Super-L) will lock the screen, but on DICE this does nothing. Similarly, the Lock item in the menu which appears when the power-button icon is pressed does not have any effect. This is because we prefer to use XScreensaver rather than the standard Gnome screensaver.

Last reviewed: 
22/09/2023

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