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Asked: 2026-05-12T22:37:22+00:00

I’ve got a program running in a GNOME Terminal, but the screensaver is acting

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I’ve got a program running in a GNOME Terminal, but the screensaver is acting up and won’t let me back in with my password. While waiting for a fix for the gnome-screensaver bug, is there some way to see the output (or even take over the process) in a virtual console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) without being able to interact with the GNOME Terminal?

Clarification: The original issue was the screensaver, but the question I’d like answered is how to see the output from a process running in another terminal, after starting the process without any logging to file. I’m guessing it should be possible to set the output device of a process from a different shell? Or is it possible to put a process in another shell into background mode, and get it into the foreground in the current shell? Or even ask GNOME Terminal to redirect or copy the output?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve had luck in the past killing the screensaver from a virtual console, unlocking X session.

    # Get the pid (xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver, etc.)
ps -f -u $(whoami) | grep screensaver

kill -9 12345 # Replace 12345 with the real pid

    EDIT: Seems like this has been thought of, and you should use one of these commands, depending on which screensaver program you use:

    xscreensaver-command -exit
gnome-screensaver-comand --exit

    See the man page for those commands for more details.

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