When an application has a keyboard or mouse lock, the screensaver can't come up because there is no X API to forcibly remove the lock form the application. This is a long-standing design flaw in X, and is the cause of all the fail-to-lock bugs, including all the ones that are duped to bug 49579.
** Changed in: virt-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: virt-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1606866 Title: Virtual Machine Viewer prevents screen lock in host machine To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1606866/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs