Bug 180209 - GNOME Screensaver allows ALT-F? keys
Summary: GNOME Screensaver allows ALT-F? keys
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-screensaver
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-02-06 19:46 UTC by Brian C. Huffman
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-03-28 16:59:08 UTC
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Description Brian C. Huffman 2006-02-06 19:46:56 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060202 Fedora/1.5.0.1-2 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Description of problem:
GNOME Screensaver allows ALT-F? keys.  So, you can switch to another virtual console without having to unlock the screensaver.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Lock screen
2. Hit ALT-F1
3.
  

Actual Results:  Goes to virtual console 1

Expected Results:  should stay locked and bring up password prompt

Additional info:

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2006-02-16 03:51:10 UTC
I don't think the screensaver has a way to intercept Ctrl-Alt-F1, because
the X server acts on these key combinations before the client side ever 
sees them.

If you don't want that, you can set 

Option "DontVTSwitch" 

in your xorg.conf


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