GNOME Shell Lock Screen

By Giovanni Campagna

This project is about reimplementing screensaver and screen locking functionality in the shell, with the following benefits:

• Shell-style look and feel
• multi-stack authentication via gdm
• access to ongoing activity and notifications
• works from the activity overview without hacks
• looks similar to the login screen

Design pages

• Screen lock

• Login screen

Current status

Basic functionality is merged, minor issues have been discussed at the BOF during GUADEC 2012. Of the issues listed at ScreenLock/BOF, most of priority 0 and priority 1 is solved.

Further details in the feature page: ThreePointFive/Features/ScreenLock

How to test

New functionality is in 3.5.5, but using 3.5.90 of gdm is gnome-shell is strongly advised. Testing is possible using an unstable distribution such as Fedora 18.

See Also

• Google Summer of Code Proposal: https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/gcampax/16001

• Blog: http://gcampax.blogspot.it/ and in particular the final report

• Contact page