When my laptop sleeps, hibernates or goes into screensaver, I need to unlock before session resume.
The unlock dialog usually appears on my external monitor. But the external monitor may no longer be present when I want to resume, which means I can't see the unlock dialog. This is a huge PITA. It could be fixed so easily if I could force the unlock dialog to always appear on my laptop's internal screen.
I've reported a bug a while ago, but there is no activity on it. I can't be the only user with this problem, so perhaps someone here has a solution.

My workaround is a script which unlocks the session, which I can run via a console logon (which I can see on my laptop's monitor).

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#!/bin/sh
# run as tim
export DISPLAY=:0
export XAUTHORITY=/home/tim/.Xauthority
qdbus org.kde.screenlocker /MainApplication quit

regards
Tim

As far as I know it follows the same setting as where your unmanaged windows will show up. System Settings -> Hardware -> Display and Monitor -> Multiple Monitors -> Show unmanaged windows on: [choose display].

Unfortunately, that setting is not respected by the unlock dialog, at least in all KDEs I have used (I'm stuck on 4.4.5 until Debian releases Squeeze next weekend).