I had the same issue of being unable to unlock the screensaver in Fedora Core 6. After reading this thread I realized that I could login by switching the keyboard layout with Alt-Shift. Before this I didn't have any clue on what was going on.
-- Screensaver password dialog does not indicate keyboard layout https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/49222 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is the registrant for gnome-screensaver. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs