Unlock your KDE4 session remotely (for boxes locked by KDE lock utility)

killall -s 9 krunner_lock

With this you can unlock your KDE4 session via SSH, via mobile phone SSH or e. g. scheduled task in crontab (without asking password). Useful when you need to grant somebody access to your locked profile remotely. Create an alias (e. g. as "unlock") and use with remote KDE4 lock. This works only on KDE4 boxes because KDE 3 is using utility with another name. Tested on Kubuntu 8.10.

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By: b2e

2009-05-21 22:29:06

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Unlock your KDE4.3 session remotely

The unlock command for KDE 4.3 has changed from krunner_lock, this process doesn't exist anymore. So here's the update :-) If qdbus complains about not being able to find X, put a "DISPLAY=:0 " (:0 being your X server display) in front of the command.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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qdbus org.kde.screenlocker /MainApplication quit

Alanceil · 2009-08-27 13:57:00 4
Unlock your KDE4 session remotely (for boxes locked by KDE lock utility)

Do the unlock KDE screen saver locked session with lightdm display manager used in Kubuntu 12.10 +
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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qdbus | grep kscreenlocker_greet | xargs -I {} qdbus {} /MainApplication quit

Murz · 2013-07-11 10:50:03 9
Unlock your KDE4 session remotely (for boxes locked by KDE lock utility)

For KDE 4.2.* with plasma overlay activated I use this.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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qdbus org.kde.krunner_lock /MainApplication quit; qdbus org.kde.plasma-overlay /MainApplication quit

unixmonkey7806 · 2010-01-11 15:10:07 5
Unlock your KDE4 session over SSH

So this first obtains address of the DBUS session, as it's not available by default over SSH. Then it tells plasma-overlay to exit. `kquitapp` is pretty much an equivalent of the qdbus calls.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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( eval $(grep -z '^DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS' /proc/$(pgrep -u $USER plasma-overlay)/environ); export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS; kquitapp plasma-overlay )

mig_hg · 2014-09-01 12:49:58 9

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I made a shell script which runs from a console shell; should be run as the same user running KDE. the export XAUTHORITY was necessary for me, KDE 4.4.5 / Debian. #!/bin/sh # run as tim export DISPLAY=:0 export XAUTHORITY=/home/tim/.Xauthority qdbus org.kde.screenlocker /MainApplication quit

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