Something strange happened at work. I locked my screen (XP) whilst taking a trip to powder my nose and when I came back, tried to unlock.
Invalid password. Tried again. Invalid password. Third time, typing very carefully. Invalid password, and by this time, my account was locked.
It turns out that my input method had switched to Russian (Cyrillic), but this wasn’t obvious in a password field, and it turned out it’s not possible to switch input method with the mouse. Maybe possible with some keystroke, bit neither I nor tech support knew what it was.
In the end, I had to have my PC shutdown remotely.
How did it happen? No idea.
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Pressing Alt+Shift cycles through your set of input languages. It’s an easy one to accidently trigger (especially if you’re in eclipse, as alt+shift is a common modifier for shortcuts).
Yes, I had a look and apparently, some time ago, I was annoyed with left alt+shift and disabled it, but did have ctrl+shift+0 as a return to uk..
Had forgotten
But still, only being able to use the keyboard to change how the keyboard works seems a bit stupid to me.
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