I have installed Garuda with LXQT.
In the last few days after a period of 2 hours of screen locked, when I try to type the password, the field seems to be disabled.
The keybord it's working, because if I enable the capslock, the login screen send the warning , but I can't type the password and I don't have the virtual keyboard on screen to try with the mouse.
The only solution is to power off.
Do you have any suggestion?
Thanks
Personally, I don't think I can help you much.
At a quick search on the Internet I did not find anything helpful (similar cases, but without solution).
In the LXQt wiki I see "If you want to disable screen locking upon suspend / sleep it is under LXQt> Preferences> LXQt Settings> Session Settings> Lock screen before suspending / hibernating checkbox."
Maybe you could test it (if the PC goes in suspend/sleep after that time) and consider it as a workaround, or as long as someone else doesn't have better ideas?
Thanks anyway.
I don't want disable the screen locking, it's a matter of security, I'm testing garuda on my PC at work.
In the last month all it's working fine.
Maybe could be a recent update.
I'll keep searching.
Ah, this is an important info.
Maybe you could give a look at /var/log/pacman.log If there was a recent update on a package which might relate to this topic (sddm, some kind of screen lock)?
If it’s too late to restore a snapshot from timeshift (maybe this started too long ago), you could check if this relates to a recent kernel update by switching to the linux-lts kernel.
I found an update for sddm-kcm this morning, but the first time it's happened was monday.
Maybe this fix the problem, i'll see tomorrow.
Do you know how to enable virtual keyboard on lock screen?
I’m not on the system today, but if I remember correctly there is a virtual keyboard button embedded in SDDM (bottom left in KDE, maybe somewehere else for you).
I installed (but very rarely use) onboard, but I don’t think it can be used before login.
I think sddm-kcm just integrates SDDM configuration into the System Settings, so most likely this is something different. Anyway, good to (re)check…
I have had a similar problem But have also had it when I was running Mint. For me it seems to be something with the Num-lock key.
If I dont touch the Num-Lock key, I cannot enter numbers but can alternate between guest and user (left-right keys).
However if I turn num-lock off (sometimes pushing the button twice) and then turn on again, I am able to enter my login.
My 2 cents...