Screen saver password

[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 use

killall gnome-screensaver

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

[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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