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ironhak

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Registered: 2024-06-21

Posts: 13

Unable to unlock screen

Hello everyone.

I'm running nixos with i3.

- Lightdm as display manager
- xfce4-screensaver installed
- xfce4-power-manager installed

Basically when the screen-saver gets triggered I see the screen saver but I'm unable to unlock the lock screen! Basically if I move the mouse or press a key I see the lock screen for half a second (I see that my input is registred in the password box) but after half second it returns to the screen saver! It's so fast I can't input my password...

Anyone have any clue on how to possibly fix this? Thanks

ironhak

Member

Registered: 2024-06-21

Posts: 13

Re: Unable to unlock screen

Any hint?

lvsl

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Registered: 2024-08-22

Posts: 13

Re: Unable to unlock screen

I know this won't fix the problem, but you can try this to at least not get locked out of your pc.

Applications -> settings -> xfce screensaver -> Disable screensaver -> go to the lockscreen tab ->  Disable lockscreen