Bug#874621: screen lock cannot be unlocked in vnc session

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 08 Sep 2017 at 12:22:37 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> Now I have to kill gnome-shell and use metacity to not lose the session
> or kill vncserver and restart session.

You might also be able to use loginctl to list sessions, then something
like "loginctl unlock-session 42" to unlock your session.

I'm somewhat surprised GNOME Shell works over VNC at all, given its
reliance on GL. Please describe your VNC session setup?

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