# how to lock screen?

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-lock-screen/27719>\
**Category:** SLED Applications\
**Created:** [December 13, 2015, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-lock-screen/27719 "2015-12-13T10:22:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![albumns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@albumns](https://forums.suse.com/u/albumns)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-lock-screen/27719/1 "2015-12-13T10:22:21Z")

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I installed SLED 12 in my laptop and I noticed that suse cannot lock the screen ask for password after 5 minutes untouched… Even I close the lips of my laptop and open it again, it doesn’t ask for password to unlock it…

How can we solve this issue?

thx a lot

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-lock-screen/27719/2 "2015-12-13T16:12:27Z")

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> On Sun 13 Dec 2015 08:24:02 AM CST, albumns wrote:
> 
> I installed SLED 12 in my laptop and I noticed that suse cannot lock the  
> screen ask for password after 5 minutes untouched… Even I close the  
> lips of my laptop and open it again, it doesn’t ask for password to  
> unlock it…
> 
> How can we solve this issue?
> 
> thx a lot

Hi  
On the menu (triangle) the center button is a padlock to lock screen,  
to configure time etc use the settings-\>privacy and/or power to  
configure as required.

There are also systemd options you can configure manually  
in /etc/systemd/logind.conf (man logind.conf for details).

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890)  
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 | GNOME 3.10.1 | 3.12.51-52.31-default  
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**Author:** ![SNicolas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@SNicolas](https://forums.suse.com/u/SNicolas)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-lock-screen/27719/3 "2015-12-21T14:28:08Z")

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I am also suffering from same problem. I too want to have a password for my screen but I am unsuccessful till now.