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TIL: Unlocking Ubuntu Remotely | posts |
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.
You need to SSH in as the active user (from another device like your phone or another laptop) and run:
loginctl list-sessions
You will get a table output with a list of sessions:
SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY
38 1000 james pts/1
44 1000 james pts/2
5 1000 james seat0 tty2
You want to take the one that has a seat allocated and run unlock against it:
loginctl unlock-session 5
Hopefully this will unlock the screen and your steamdeck screen will show the application you're trying to use.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/341014/unlock-login-screen-using-command-line