On Fri, 08 Sep 2017 at 12:22:37 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Now I have to kill gnome-shell and use metacity to not lose the session > or kill vncserver and restart session.
You might also be able to use loginctl to list sessions, then something like "loginctl unlock-session 42" to unlock your session. I'm somewhat surprised GNOME Shell works over VNC at all, given its reliance on GL. Please describe your VNC session setup? S