Bug 533504 - last screen state is visible on wakeup despite screensaver password protection
Summary: last screen state is visible on wakeup despite screensaver password protection
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-screensaver
Version: 12
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: jmccann
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-06 21:56 UTC by Jeffrey Warren
Modified: 2015-01-14 23:24 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-04 03:28:45 UTC
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Description Jeffrey Warren 2009-11-06 21:56:16 UTC
Description of problem:
When the machine wakes from sleep, the last visible screen flashes for a moment (1/4 second) before the user is locked out and  prompted for a password. For security reasons this should be suppressed - a user approaching a sleeping machine should not be able to get a glimpse of what was on the screen - even for a moment.

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


How reproducible:

intermittent but at least daily

Steps to Reproduce:
1. let the machine go to sleep (typically by closing the laptop lid)
2. wake it
3. 
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 15:15:50 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 2 Tim Taiwanese Liim 2010-05-01 04:38:25 UTC
Jeffrey,
Do you still see this issue?  Now that g-ss has changed quite a bit
since Comment #0 it may have been fixed.  Now it worked fine on my
several F12 (no glimpse of last visible screen).

Comment 3 James 2010-05-01 05:51:08 UTC
I still see this with gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-1.fc12.x86_64.

Comment 4 Tim Taiwanese Liim 2010-05-03 22:43:01 UTC
James,
Thanks for confirming the issue is still present.  I tried the
procedure in Comment #0
  1. let the machine go to sleep, by closing the laptop lid
  2. wake it
and I saw a blank screen for a moment, then the lock screen; no glimpse
of screen prior to sleep.  I am also using gss-2.28.3-1.fc12.x86_64,
on Sony VAIO VGN-FE890, Intel 945GM graphic chip.

Do you see this issue consistently?  Is the system under high CPU
load?  Does the power source (AC/battery) make any difference?  Do the
different themes (Blank screen, Cosmos, etc) make any difference?  Any
idea how I may be able to reproduce this issue?  Thanks.

Comment 5 James 2010-05-28 19:13:25 UTC
Tim,

One way I know of getting a *brief* gimpse of the underlying desktop is to switch VT to a text console, wait enough time for the screensaver, then switch back to X. It is at that point that the display locks, as if I had immediately pressed Ctrl+Alt+L --- so although the timeout's been registered, the screensaver hasn't started. However, this might be a red-herring and a different problem.

I'm not sure yet what circumstances lead to the worse one, where the underlying desktop persists (but its image is largely frozen). I'll try doing more sleep-testing...

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 06:44:56 UTC
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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2010-12-04 03:28:45 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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