tollyboy_uk

I work mostly in English with some work in Greek. Logged onto the box in English and switched to Greek keyboard for some work. I got distracted and the screen saver started up. I can't now stop the screen saver as I only have access to Greek characters and the screen saver wants my password in English. Is there an easy way from here to change my keyboard settings so I can log back in?

bigtomrodney

I see this bug has been reported several times across the net without resolution. I just tested a quick workaround which should help you: Switch to a VT using CTRL+ALT+F1 and log in there with the same user as is currently locked. From there you can kill the screensaver process. For example to kill the screensaver in Gnome useNot quite a solution but I hope this gets you out of the rut.

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tollyboy_uk

Switch to a VT using CTRL+ALT+F1 and log in there with the same user as is currently locked. From there you can kill the screensaver process. For example to kill the screensaver in Gnome use
Code:

killall gnome-screensaver

Not quite a solution but I hope this gets you out of the rut.

That will work just fine thanks, I'm an idiot I switched to VT with CTRL+ALT+F2 logged in and deleted the password
passwd -d username
Which also works but means I had to reset it later.


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