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Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64

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On 09/12/2024 09:54 AM, Hans wrote:
>> Didn't seem to work on 2 machines using different flavors of Debian.
>> Where is that documented so I can run a verifiable test?
> 
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> 
> You are right. I rechecked this and it does not work correctly, because of a bug in KDE. The
> problem is, when starting another session, your former session is locking. But you can not
> unlock your session again, even with the correct password. I know about this for more than 3
> years and reported the bug long time ago. It is still not fied, but this is not the point here.
> 
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> 
> Apart from this, check it. I am running KDE (plasma) and you get the option "change user"
> from the K-menu.
> 
> Do this, and you start with the windowmanager you preset in your favourite login manager (I
> am using lightdm, but sddm or gdm might work as well, too).
> 
> When both windowmanagers are started, you can click every time to "change user" and then
> get the option, to chose, to which you want to switch.
> 
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> 
> But as I said before: The former one has a locked screen and can not be unlocked. I suppose,
> this is a rights problem and the locking mechanism is set by root and rooit must unloc it. But as
> you want to unlock the screen as normal user, it will not work. Maybe sometimes this will be
> fixed. However, it does not harm the function of starting a second window managers for another
> user.
> 
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> 
> If someone might also confirm of this little bug I mentioned here and knows better than me, he
> may just file a little bugreport to the developers of KDE. Maybe he also nows a little
> workaround???
> 
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> Hope this helps and makes things clearer.
> 

But I use MATE.
I'm still interested in documentation of what is intended to happen.


> Best regards
> 
> Hans
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> 

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Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 13:50 +0200
  Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-12 14:00 +0200
    Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-12 14:10 +0200
    Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 14:50 +0200
      Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-12 15:10 +0200
        Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 16:10 +0200
          Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-12 17:00 +0200
            Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 17:30 +0200
            KDE, switching users (was: Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on  Lenovo R64) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-09-12 18:40 +0200
  Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-09-12 14:20 +0200
    Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 15:50 +0200
  Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-09-12 14:20 +0200
    Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 15:40 +0200
      Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-09-12 15:50 +0200
        Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 17:20 +0200
      Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-09-12 16:00 +0200
        Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-09-12 16:20 +0200
          Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 16:50 +0200
        Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-12 17:00 +0200
          Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-09-12 18:10 +0200
      Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-13 10:20 +0200
        Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-09-13 11:00 +0200
          Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-13 12:20 +0200
            Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-09-13 14:10 +0200
              Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-09-13 15:00 +0200

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