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- Software Development
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date: '2023-09-30 09:34:37'
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draft: false
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- til
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title: 'TIL: Unlocking Ubuntu Remotely'
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type: posts
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<p>My use case is starting a game stream from my steamdeck after my pc has locked itself. The game will start but the desktop lock screen/screensaver is visible and you can't play or do anything.</p>
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<p>You need to SSH in as the active user (from another device like your phone or another laptop) and run:</p>
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<pre class="EnlighterJSRAW" data-enlighter-language="bash" data-enlighter-theme="" data-enlighter-highlight="" data-enlighter-linenumbers="" data-enlighter-lineoffset="" data-enlighter-title="" data-enlighter-group="">loginctl list-sessions
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<p>You will get a table output with a list of sessions:</p>
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<pre class="EnlighterJSRAW" data-enlighter-language="bash" data-enlighter-theme="" data-enlighter-highlight="" data-enlighter-linenumbers="" data-enlighter-lineoffset="" data-enlighter-title="" data-enlighter-group="">SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY
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38 1000 james pts/1
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44 1000 james pts/2
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5 1000 james seat0 tty2
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<p>You want to take the one that has a seat allocated and run unlock against it:</p>
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<pre class="EnlighterJSRAW" data-enlighter-language="bash" data-enlighter-theme="" data-enlighter-highlight="" data-enlighter-linenumbers="" data-enlighter-lineoffset="" data-enlighter-title="" data-enlighter-group="">loginctl unlock-session 5
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<p>Hopefully this will unlock the screen and your steamdeck screen will show the application you're trying to use.</p>
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<p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/341014/unlock-login-screen-using-command-line">https://askubuntu.com/questions/341014/unlock-login-screen-using-command-line</a></p>
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