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

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  Virtual Machine Viewer prevents screen lock in host machine

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