On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 9:32 AM Adam Mercer <ramercer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Could there be another process blanking the screen that is bypassing
the screen lock?
After a lot of reading through logs and trying to manually trigger the
screensaver using:
$ dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver
/org/gnome/ScreenSaver org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Lock
I found the following in the log:
gnome-shell[2762]: Screen lock is locked down, not locking
Searching for that error resulted in me finding this:
https://askbot.fedoraproject.org/en/question/122030/screen-lock-is-locked...
and indeed it seems that somehow screen lock had become disabled:
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen
true
$
Running:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen false
Got things working again! No idea how the screen lock became
disabled... but it's working now.
Cheers
Adam