On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:00 AM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote: > For gnome how about something like: > > gconftool-2 --direct \ > --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type bool \ > --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_enabled false Many thanks. That did the trick. Bob