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drivebyacct2 on Jan 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Every Linux screen locker bypassed with a keypress

Just reminds me of more usability/security concerns in GNOME.

If you have any popup dialog box open anywhere, it completely inhibits the screensaver. Try it. Open Rhythmbox and open the volume slider and walk away from your computer. Open Chrome and open the Google Voice popopen box. Your computer will not go to sleep. Also, it breaks mouse focus and more. The GNOME developers don't seem to care at all.

nodata on Jan 20, 2012 | [–]

Please can you post the bugzilla bug number for this?

Jonhoo on Jan 20, 2012 | [–]

This had nothing to do with GNOME, it was a bug in X that affected any lock application.

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