I recently used fedup to upgrade my Fedora 19 machine to Fedora 20. However, after upgrading to Fedora 20 (which includes GNOME 3.10), i noticed that my normal keyboard shortcut (CTRL + ALT + L) was not locking the screen like it has previously.
After bashing the alt, control and L keys on my keyboard for a few moment, i figured out that in GNOME 3.10, the default shortcut to lock the screen is now changed to SUPER + L.
Note, however, that it is trivial to change this back (or to whatever other key combination you want)using the Keyboard preferences in the GNOME Settings.
Why would you change it back? It is now a 2 button combo vs 3 buttons.
Personally, i haven’t changed it back. However over 6 years of muscle memory is taking over a month to forget. I still occasionally press the old shortcut.
For some people, changing is annoying, so i explained how to change it back.
Thanks! I’m used to Ctrl-Alt-L too. I thought it might be a bug.
Thanks for the info. I just upgraded my work system and completely forgot that the setting was changed without much fan fare. You would think they could have somehow “symlinked” Ctrl+Alt+L to Super+L for those who have been using it the old way, but oh well. As for the other comment about “it’s a 2 button shortcut instead of 3″, it’s more difficult to reach for the Super button when your hand is on the “home row” than it was to hit Ctrl with the edge of my hand and Alt with my thumb… like Ryan said, muscle memory.
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For me Super+L never worked. Using your blog I changed it back to Ctrl+Alt+L and its works fine.
It might be a bug with Super+L.
Me too,
I can confirm that it worked before. but It doesn’t work right now so I have to change back to Ctrl+Alt+L. I think there’s a bug with Super+L for screen lock