Re: Screen saver password problem

2002-04-23 Thread Amir Tal
On Monday 22 April 2002 22:17, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 15:11, Amir Tal wrote: this is what i though at first to, but if i open a new session (alt+ctrl+f2) i can type English without changing anything. Of course, because the active Hebrew keyboard map is active in X,

Re: Screen saver password problem

2002-04-23 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
the problem is that you dont remember what language you are locked on to before you get up to grub some coffee and lock your screen ;) . if you keep a LOT of applications running all the time, then killing X becomes a big problem... (Yes, I once made that mistake too -- even killed

Re: Screen saver password problem

2002-04-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about Re: Screen saver password problem: Just a (very) simple trick that once helped me out: if you have root privileges, you may change the passwd to something you *can* type, unlock KDE, and revert to the original password. No need to murder X

Re: Screen saver password problem

2002-04-23 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about Re: Screen saver password problem: Just a (very) simple trick that once helped me out: if you have root privileges, you may change the passwd to something you *can* type, unlock KDE, and revert to the original password. No need to murder X

Re: Screen saver password problem

2002-04-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Amir Tal wrote: On Monday 22 April 2002 22:17, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 15:11, Amir Tal wrote: this is what i though at first to, but if i open a new session (alt+ctrl+f2) i can type English without changing anything. Of course, because the

Re: Screen saver password problem

2002-04-22 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Sunday 21 April 2002 12:11, Amir Tal wrote: On Sunday 21 April 2002 14:59, Eran Rundstein wrote: Perhaps you are locking it while having a non-english (such as hebrew) keymap active.. this is what i though at first to, but if i open a new session (alt+ctrl+f2) i can type English

Re: Screen saver password problem

2002-04-22 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 15:11, Amir Tal wrote: this is what i though at first to, but if i open a new session (alt+ctrl+f2) i can type English without changing anything. Of course, because the active Hebrew keyboard map is active in X, while the console remains in English mapping. Don't forget

Screen saver password problem

2002-04-21 Thread Amir Tal
hi, this is RH72, KDE3.0 final, rpm install. from time to time, when i lock my screen (using alt+ctrl+L) i cannot unlock it back. when typing in the password, i can only send numbers, not letters. i.e - digits are accepted, letters are not. this is not happening all the time, only occasionally

Re: Screen saver password problem

2002-04-21 Thread Amir Tal
On Sunday 21 April 2002 14:59, Eran Rundstein wrote: Perhaps you are locking it while having a non-english (such as hebrew) keymap active.. this is what i though at first to, but if i open a new session (alt+ctrl+f2) i can type English without changing anything. i guess that this does not

Re: Screen saver password problem

2002-04-21 Thread Eran Rundstein
Perhaps you are locking it while having a non-english (such as hebrew) keymap active.. Eran. On Sunday 21 April 2002 02:16 pm, Amir Tal wrote: hi, this is RH72, KDE3.0 final, rpm install. from time to time, when i lock my screen (using alt+ctrl+L) i cannot unlock it back. when typing in