Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-10-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/27/2014 08:31 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 06:46:49PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/27/2014 05:34 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 9/27/14, softwatt wrote: I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in the wrong language. If you use multiple l

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-10-08 Thread lee
softwatt writes: > Perhaps we should suggest an xscreensaver update, where the capslock > status and the current language are shown next to the password input. > This should be trivial to implement. +NumLock, and correct handling of NumLock A password starting with a tilde can yield strange res

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-10-08 Thread lee
Steve Litt writes: > with lxlock, and after switching to i3lock with the -i option, I found > it a great locker for *any* wm/de. Just be careful with outdated versions of i3lock when NumLock comes into play. -- Hallowed are the Debians! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
softwatt writes: > I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in > the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing > ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do > it multiple times if you have multiple languages. > If that is no

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-28 Thread softwatt
On 09/28/2014 03:31 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 06:46:49PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >> Great Minds! The only thing the user sees is black dots. :) Ric > You don't even get to see those AFAIR. Wrong. One does see black dots, see attachment. signature.asc Description: OpenP

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-28 Thread softwatt
On 09/28/2014 01:46 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/27/2014 05:34 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 9/27/14, softwatt wrote: >>> I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in >>> the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing >>> ALT+SHIFT (The default languag

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 13:42:33 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Recently, my Debian stable system started to refuse my password when > I want to unlock my screen. > > Most users on the system use Gnome 3 and their lock screen works OK > (thank god), but I use XFCE and xscreensaver and this one has

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 06:45:26PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/27/2014 04:41 PM, softwatt wrote: > >I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in > >the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing > >ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. Y

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 06:46:49PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/27/2014 05:34 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >On 9/27/14, softwatt wrote: > >>I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in > >>the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing > >>ALT+SHIFT (T

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/27/2014 05:34 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 9/27/14, softwatt wrote: I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do it multiple

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/27/2014 04:41 PM, softwatt wrote: I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do it multiple times if you have multiple languages.

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/27/14, softwatt wrote: > I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in > the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing > ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do > it multiple times if you have multiple languages. > > I

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread softwatt
I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do it multiple times if you have multiple languages. If that is not your issue, I am clueless.

Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
Recently, my Debian stable system started to refuse my password when I want to unlock my screen. Most users on the system use Gnome 3 and their lock screen works OK (thank god), but I use XFCE and xscreensaver and this one has recently decided that it can't accept any passwords any more. I tried