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I can't believe this bug is still open. The report goes back more than
10 years.
Also the duplicate (bug 4286) mentioned above is incorrect, it points an
avifile issue.
This is a incredibly high security issue that should be fixed
immediately. Not only all the examples mentioned above by meany
This bug is still present in Ubuntu 20.10 / Gnome 3.38. This is a huge
issue especially in corporate environments.
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This bug is currently not assigned to any components of "Ubuntu 20.10 /
Gnome 3.38". But we can change that... Do you experience it in both Xorg
and Wayland sessions? Or just when app menus are open?
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It is still present in Ubuntu 16.04.
All as described here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/1124282
"If the Windows window is on focus and i am inactive, then my screen is locked
after a certain amount of time and should normally ask for my password. But it
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Ctrl-Alt-L works here when menus are open. The idle timeout also blanks
and locks the screen when menus are open and pressing a key unblanks the
screen to reveal the lockscreen which cannot be bypassed by further
keypresses or mouseclicks.
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS.
unity 7.2.5+14.04.20150603-0ubuntu1
As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10
and the bug is still there. I reproduced by opening the context menu on
the desktop.
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Yes screen gets locked when menus are open since a couple of Unity
releases.
But right click context menus are a different story. For example when I
have right click menu opened in Nautilus the screen goes blank but when
I move the cursor I see the whole screen and then only after clicking
somwher
Thanks Mateusz. The only right-click context menu I tested was the
Firefox one. I guess Firefox doesn't use GTK/GTK+.
I can confirm the behaviour you described with the right-click context
menu in Nautilus. Excellent description too, by the way.
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS.
unity 7.2.5+14.04.20150603-0
So, you can't redesign it to allow two programs to grab the keyboard and
mouse?
I would suggest that each program, by default, will have the complete
attention of the mouse and keyboard. If a program calls a function,
method on an API (I don't work in your world, sorry. Bear with me), it
will flip
In 16.04, it is still an issue (for me at least)
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As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10
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Than Jose it is suggested to add the tag for 15.10 to the report. Adding
regarding to
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So under xenial, I can't reproduce the bug, it seems to be fixed.
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I'm also experiencing this problem with 12.10. I'm amazed this security
hole has been present for 6 1/2 years!
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This problem is also present in KDE, so it's not a bug exclusive to
gnome-screensaver. As was said before, this is a problem with the way X
was designed, and the solutions imply either re-designing X (I doubt
there are many people up to such a task) or working around it.
For suspend/hibernate the
Probably we could workaround this problem in unity-panel service, by
closing a menu when a such request has been done by UPower, however this
would not fix the problems with other application menus.
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This bug also occur with contextual menu. Right click anywhere and wait.
The screen goes black after a while. Move the mouse to activate the
screen. The screen is NOT lock. Strangely, the screen lock immediately
after the menu disappear (left click anywhere outside the menu).
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The only way to fix it is to switch away from X.org, Mir is in the works
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I don't have a problem with manually locking the screen, especially as I
have worked in secure Defence facilities where that is standard
pracrtice.
But I do have a problem with a software interface that falsely claims to
provide a facility which in fact doesn't work correctly if at all.
To elimin
Encompass wrote: "The computer should lock automatically when idle.
Instead of solving the problem you want to get rid of the feature."
But the feature only works some of the time, and the thread here makes
it clear it isn't going to be fixed while the system uses X.
A security feature that only
Initially I was tempted to say we can't fix it because popup menus own
("grab") the keyboard and that blocks the screensaver from taking
ownership of the keyboard. But now I wonder...
Can't the screensaver just force XUngrabKeyboard before trying to grab
it? Would that work?
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Either that and even if it doesn't work, can't we get a hack that kills
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user-defined script? Those would be more useful than removing the
feature altogether.
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Killing the whole login is pointless because you'd be killing that which a
locked screen is meant to protect.
Killing just the X session (client) holding the lock is unacceptable because
killing a user's apps or shell is worse than the bug itself.
If we can get the screensaver to just XUngrabKey
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@Ctrl-Alt-L is also broken. You need to close menus and other popups
first, otherweise the key combination will simply be ignored.
Also, on Multimonitor setups sometimes the second screen still shows its
content, despite the lock being activated.
IMHO the only reliable way of locking your Ubuntu
> Killing just the X session (client) holding the lock is unacceptable
because killing a user's apps or shell is worse than the bug itself.
I wholeheartedly disagree. shutdown the computer altogether would be
less bad than granting access when the user expects otherwise..
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It's an inherent issue with the X11 (X.org) design. It has been looked
into by a few big developers but solving it is lose to imposible. The
solution will be switching to Wayland instead of X.org, somthing that
likly will happen in the not to fare away future.
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Do you have a pointer to an explanation of this “inherent issue” and why
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What I don’t understand, in particular, is _why_ GTK menus need to grab
the mouse and keyboard in the first place. (But if this is an absolute
requirement, surely the GTK developers can work with th
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you can see the explanation (and more) on this article:
"The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland".
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_wayland_situation&num=1
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@manny - thanks for posting that article, clarifies a lot of things.
Based on the explanations there my recommendation would be to close this
bug as won't fix since X11 basically makes it ridiculously hard if not
downright iimpossible to address this.
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Actually I think they might be working on a fix to this indirectly with
Mir, just like wayland is trying to do.
So maybe this bug (or a new bug) should get attached to Mir so they
don't forget to test it.
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Surely this is an NSA backdoor :)
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:26 PM Mateusz Stachowski <49...@bugs.launchpad.net>
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> Yes screen gets locked when menus are open since a couple of Unity
> releases.
>
> But right click context menus are a different story. For example when I
> have right click me
closing a leak does not always mean inserting a plug, sometimes it just
means lessening the leak to a trickle, one that you can afford to pay for.
In this case, a trickle will do for now.
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
wrote:
> Probably we could workaround this problem i
Gael -- Correct. Makes you wonder if this is ever going to be fixed since
it is well known for many years...
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014, 7:30 PM Gael Lafond <49...@bugs.launchpad.net>
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> This bug also occur with contextual menu. Right click anywhere and wait.
> The screen goes black after a while.
Tony -- exactly! Perfect analysis. Its a false sense of security which
should be abolished or rectified.
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On Nov 4, 2013 5:30 PM, "Tony" <49...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> I do
I totally disagree.
The computer should lock automatically when idle. Instead of solving the
problem you want to get rid of the feature.
There are times when people are distracted and walk away from the
computer. If someone wanted to be malicious this would be their
opportunity. Just do a little
Yes but that idle lock feature doesn't work and cannot be trusted. It would
be like saying trust SSL but its using a NULL cipher...
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On Nov 4, 2013 8:55 PM, "encompass" wrote:
So are you proposing we get rid of the autolock functionality because we
can't solve this bug? Or is there some other solution your providing here?
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Kristian Erik Hermansen <
kristian.herman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes but that idle lock feature doesn't work and ca
Yes. Remove it since it is a decade long bug.
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On Nov 4, 2013 9:20 PM, "encompass" wrote:
> So are you proposing we get rid of the autolock functionality because we
> can't sol
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That entirely depends on how much your prioritize security over usefulness.
I would not want that to happen, because I don't have secure things, by and
large. I can completely understand other people disagreeing. Ubuntu isn't
about prioritizing security over all else, I feel. A shutdown is excessiv
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