Posted on Dec 03, 2021 by kingbeowulf
Every so often the KDE lock screen is missing the password prompt. The mouse cursor moves around, wakes up the display, with no way to get back to the desktop. Normally I'd just force a log out or SHIFT-CTRL-BACKSPACE, but I had a bunch of stuff running that I didn't want to unceremoniously kill. Of course, searching for another answer these days provides all sorts of nonsensical systemd stuff. One post mentioned loginctl, part of elogind. I then remembered that Slackware switched to elogind. I remoted in from another desktop - running Xfce which does not seem to suffer from this lock screen issue.