workaround open an tty (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and kill the budgie-screensaver process

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    gray380 And so every time? Better to use the GNOME. And since he's a GNOME, Fedora is better.

        valst And since he's a GNOME, Fedora is better.

        Anyone interested in moving to Fedors should take a look at Ultramarine Linux. It's based on Fedora, but much improved. If Solus didn't exist, I'd be using it, too.

            valst every time when I left ua keyboard layout 😉
            According to GNOME I prefer KDE to be honest.

              WetGeek If Solus didn't exist I highly likely move to Manjaro or Pop!_OS 🙂

                  WetGeek I tried Ultramarine, but I like Solus better and it does a great job for me. And Fedora is my previous distribution, I've been with it for a long time and I have sentiments. 🙂 If I understood more I would do this with the keyboard layout, but I don't understand.

                      gray380 Yes, Manjaro is really easy to use and has a rich repository, which is not very good for more modest users like me. Pop OS! I have not tested it in a similar way, I read that it is recommended and praised. But for now, Solus is my distribution.

                        valst I tried Ultramarine, but I like Solus better and it does a great job for me.

                        Agree. Solus is on 7 computers here. I like to expllore other distros by installing them on virttual machines, and I've done that with Ultramarine. Its UI is Budgie, which was developed by the Solus team, so it's very familiar and easy to work with.

                            WetGeek Hate to burst the Ultramarine bubble, but the lead maintainer recently stepped down and they seem to be in the process of shutting down. Really sad since I was a Korora Project (Fedora + sane defaults) user for years before I found Solus. Ultramarine seemed like a spiritual successor but they have gone the same way ☚ī¸ .

                            Source: link

                            I am currently trying out The Nobara Project on my gaming drive and it works pretty good so far. Much closer to vanilla Fedora aesthetically but the changes under the hood and preinstalled software are nice. It's also done by Glorious Eggroll, who works for Redhat and has done a ton of work on wine/proton. Still waiting for the Buddies of Budgie to get Budgie into the Fedora repo though...

                                hdansin the lead maintainer recently stepped down and they seem to be in the process of shutting down

                                Indeed, that's terrible news. It won't affect me personally, but I hate to see a really good distro disappear.

                                  gray380 the password has been created under 'us' keyboard layout.

                                  I know this is an old thread, but did you try creating a new password with the non-english layout enabled? That way you would not have to switch to english on the lock screen.

                                      hdansin Hate to burst the Ultramarine bubble, but the lead maintainer recently stepped down and they seem to be in the process of shutting down.

                                      You seem to know more about the state of Ultramarine than I do, but for something being shut down, it seems to be fighting back. Maybe others are stepping in to help?

                                      I just fired up my Ultramarine VM and did an update - 59 packages upgraded this week. Perhaps there's some reason to hope that it will be around for a while longer?

                                          WetGeek I am just going from what the maintainer said in the link I posted. In the Discord, he said that 22.04/36 would be the last release. With that said it shouldn't be too much of a step for it's users to just keep using Fedora, one possibility he mentioned was having it continue as a repository. I do hope the project continues in some fashion as it looks really great, and I daily drove Korora all through undergrad so I have a bit of sentiment for it.

                                          The #dev channel in the discord does seem active, so hopefully that means other maintainers are stepping up.

                                              hdansin The #dev channel in the discord does seem active, so hopefully that means other maintainers are stepping up.

                                              I hope so, as well. I took the next step today. I wanted to try Ultramarine on hardware, so I installed it on a spare laptop. It's nearly configured for daily use already. Still have Solus on the other computers here, but I wanted to try Ultramarine outside of a virtual machine.

                                                I came to the following decision: I installed Solus Budgie in English without specifying another language. After installation, I added a second keyboard language (Bulgarian) and changed the system language. Then I restarted, of course, and after logging in I changed the keyboard language to Bulgarian and locked it. And I was very happy to see an opportunity to change the language, I changed it to English and entered. Well that's it.

                                                  valst the issue with lock-screen, not with login screen.
                                                  btw, my path to install Solus is almost as yours 😉

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