I was using virtualbox on a laptop and closed the lid which locked the screen and sleep the computer. Now it came back from sleep, the screen is locked, but I can not type my password. The mouse work, I can set focus in the password box, but typing does nothing.
I guess the keyboard is held by virtualbox.
I tried plugin in a keyboard, no luck. I tried killing unity-panel-service –lockscreen-mode, it seems to have a watchdog that restart it.
I'll find some command line to sleep my vm, but is there anyway to unlock the screen from command line ?
Best Answer
Go to TTY and run the command:
and then go back to the login screen and click in the password box. Wait ~5 secs and your password will be typed and enter will have been pressed.
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