{"id":3149,"date":"2014-04-03T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2014-05-20T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T13:10:50","slug":"switch-back-to-previous-lockscreen-ubuntu-14-04-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/switch-back-to-previous-lockscreen-ubuntu-14-04-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Back to Previous LockScreen in Ubuntu 14.04 Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unity_logo_icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unity_logo_icon.jpg\" alt=\"unity screen locker\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2901\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Ubuntu 14.04 Unity now has its own screen locker which looks identical to the LightDM greeter \u2013 the default Unity login screen. For those who prefer the previous lockscreen used in Ubuntu 13.10 and earlier, here&#8217;s how to switch it back.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The new lockscreen, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/the-cavalry\/light-locker\" title=\"Light Locker on GitHub\" target=\"_blank\">light-locker<\/a>, is forked from gnome-screensaver that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop while not carrying any desktop-specific dependencies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lightdm-locker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lightdm-locker.jpg\" alt=\"LightDM locker\" width=\"468\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lightdm-locker.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lightdm-locker-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to try this lockscreen in Ubuntu 13.10 or Ubuntu 13.04, see <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/install-light-locker-via-ppa-in-ubuntu-13-10-13-04\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>To restore previous Lockscreen in Ubuntu 14.04:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><b>UPDATE<\/b>: The option has been removed in Ubuntu 14.04 final release. So this tutorial won&#8217;t work anymore.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Search for and install <i>Compizconfig-Settings-Manager<\/i> in Ubuntu Software Center. Or press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal, and run the command below instead:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager<\/pre>\n<p>After that, start CCSM from Unity Dash and navigate to <b>Ubuntu Unity Plugin -> General -> Lockscreen<\/b>. Click on the drop-down box and select which screen locker to use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/change-lockscreen-ubuntu1404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/change-lockscreen-ubuntu1404.jpg\" alt=\"change lockscreen ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"560\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/change-lockscreen-ubuntu1404.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/change-lockscreen-ubuntu1404-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu 14.04 Unity now has its own screen locker which looks identical to the LightDM greeter \u2013 the default Unity login screen. For those who prefer the previous lockscreen used in Ubuntu 13.10 and earlier, here&#8217;s how to switch it back. The new lockscreen, light-locker, is forked from gnome-screensaver that aims to have simple, sane, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[673,546,855],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-lightdm","tag-lightdm-session-locker","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}