Celeb Glow
general | March 28, 2026

Disabling Lock Screen Fade to Black on Ubuntu 17.10 (Wayland) [duplicate]

When I lock the screen with the shortcut or gnome-screensaver-command -l

The screen locks then sleeps, putting my monitor to sleep, I can't seem to be able to make any xorg workarounds work in Wayland (Obviously)

Is there a way to disable this functionality? It is really annoying.

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This is from another answer I posted where OP has yet to log into Ask Ubuntu again to respond. To set these options open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T. The changes take effect for the current session and permanently.

For Login screen:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver idle-activation-enabled false

Disable dimming screen when idle:

In Unix & Linux someone complained when on battery screen dims every 20 seconds and wants to turn that feature off:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim false
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