Hi,
I originally installed the Plasma version of Manjaro but have just recently decided to switch to XFCE and installed xfce and xfce-goodies. It generally works fine but one problem I have is, that when my system resumes from suspend to RAM I get to the Unlock screen that shows the Cancel & the Unlock buttons under a field where my password would go, I however do not seem to be able to enter my password in the field, when I click it, I fo not get a cursor and any key I hit on the keyboard, does not go into the password box (it works fine to unlock after my monitors turn off - this just seems to happen when it resumes fro sleep). I tried to login with ssh (as well as locally from another console) and execute: loginctl unlock-session but that ddn’t work.
I actually end up needing to restart my sddm to just be able to login again.
Why does this happen and how can I fix it?
No need to use sddm if you are not on kde. For display manager switch to ligthdm:
sudo pacman -S lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
sudo systemctl disable sddm.service
sudo systemctl enable lightdm.service
For screensaver you can switch to xfce4-screensaver:
sudo pacman -S xfce4-screensaver #search for screensaver and enable it
Theoricaly, any login manager works with any DE…
Installing a new screen locker is indeed relevant here, as Xfce does not invoke SDDM by default. If you want it invoked, you need to configure it so:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xfce#Lock_the_screen
I did what ishaanbhimwal suggested above (had xfce4-screensaver installed already),
disabled lock screen in power manager (lock session = Never & unchecked ‘lock screen @ sleep’) and also in the screensaver dialog. However, my system is set to go to sleep after 30min and if it does so, upon wake-up, I still get the dialog that won’t let me enter my password to unlock my screen, i.e. I still need to restart lightdm in order to get back into a session.
What else am I missing? To be able to unlock my session (why doies it even lock to begin with?)
Thanks maycne.sonahoz,
Here’s the additional information:
System:
Kernel: 5.10.93-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=71d8b92f-47a1-4752-acc4-c50b37758731 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=d96e0212-fd07-484e-8cae-dc6ba0dca1c0
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel, tint2
wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 dm: GDM 41.3, LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUSTeK product: CM6850 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: CM6850 v: Rev 1.xx serial: <superuser required>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1102 date: 11/04/2011
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.54 GiB used: 2.76 GiB (17.7%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-2600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge
family: 6 model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1622 high: 1734 min/max: 1600/3800 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1605 2: 1606 3: 1606
4: 1605 5: 1606 6: 1605 7: 1734 8: 1616 bogomips: 54614
Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov
constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept est
flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce
md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid
pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp rep_good
sep smx ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow
tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology
xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0102
class-ID: 0380
Device-2: NVIDIA GF119 [GeForce GT 520] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
v: 390.147 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1040
class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Logitech HD Webcam C525 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
bus-ID: 2-1.4:4 chip-ID: 046d:0826 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
loaded: nvidia alternate: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3600x1080 s-dpi: 90 s-size: 1016x312mm (40.0x12.3")
s-diag: 1063mm (41.8")
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90
size: 473x296mm (18.6x11.7") diag: 558mm (22")
Monitor-2: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 88
size: 553x311mm (21.8x12.2") diag: 634mm (25")
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 520/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.147
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK P8H67 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GF119 HDMI Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e08 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Logitech HD Webcam C525 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
bus-ID: 2-1.4:4 chip-ID: 046d:0826 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.93-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.43 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK P8P67 and other motherboards driver: r8169 v: kernel
port: d000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 2-1.6:5 chip-ID: 0a5c:21e8 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: f060
bus-ID: 00:1f.2 chip-ID: 8086:2822 rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 1.11 TiB (60.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 3B6Q scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 914.33 GiB size: 898.98 GiB (98.32%)
used: 455.08 GiB (50.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 71d8b92f-47a1-4752-acc4-c50b37758731
ID-2: /home raw-size: 931.51 GiB size: 931.51 GiB (100.00%)
used: 679.31 GiB (72.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: N/A
uuid: ba093e47-a5d2-4753-b39e-64413066d9c8
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 17.18 GiB used: 440 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
uuid: d96e0212-fd07-484e-8cae-dc6ba0dca1c0
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1.1:3 info: Alcor Micro Flash Card Reader/Writer
type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 058f:6362 class-ID: 0806
serial: <filter>
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-1.3:3 info: Razer USA Razer BlackWidow V3 Tenkeyless
type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: razerkbd,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 1532:0a24 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 2-1.4:4 info: Logitech HD Webcam C525 type: Audio,Video
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 046d:0826 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Device-3: 2-1.6:5 info: Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth 4.0 type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0a5c:21e8
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 3-1:2 info: VIA Labs VL813 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 2109:2813 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1.1:34 info: Nordic ASA nRF52 USB Product type: N/A
driver: N/A rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 1915:520f
class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 3-1.3:26 info: Future Devices Bridge(I2C/SPI/UART/FIFO)
type: <vendor specific> driver: ftdi_sio interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 90mA chip-ID: 0403:6015 class-ID: 0000
serial: <filter>
Hub-7: 3-1.4:5 info: VIA Labs VL813 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 2109:2813 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1.4.4:6 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse
driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c534 class-ID: 0301
Hub-8: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 44 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 323 Uptime: 2d 23m wakeups: 96 Init: systemd v: 250
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: 1845
pacman: 1834 lib: 465 flatpak: 11 Shell: fish v: 3.3.1
running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.12
I hope this helps! Please advise on how to address my issue as described above.