Change GNOME lock time settings in Linux

Wednesday, 26th September 2018

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In GNOME 3.X The screen lock time setting is set either to 1 minute 15 minutes or NEVER
So what if you would like to,

Set the gnome screen lock settings value to 30 minutes or one Hour

Here is how:

For 30 minutes lock screen setting:

 

linux:~$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 1800

 

Set GNOME lock time to 1 hour

 

linux:~$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 3600

 

The setting is set in seconds so quickest way to calculate is to divide by 60 (seconds), you can calculate easily the time you like with BC (arbitrary precision calculation language) like so:

 

linux:~$ echo '3600/60' | bc
60

 

Lets say you would like to set your screen to lock every 3 hours, the delay value to set in org.gnome.desktop.session would be:

 

linux:~$ echo '3600*3' | bc
10800

 

Once you set the value to a different than the 3 recognized ones would show in GNOME Control Center as Never (depending on the distro).
 

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