Lock screen isn't cat-friendly (no input timemout)
Bug #1292695 reported by
Adam Conrad
This bug affects 6 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unity (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
gnome-screensaver's lock screen has an input timeout, so that if you, say, lock your screen and have a cat walk across your keyboard in the middle of the night, after N seconds (don't recall how long it is) of no input, it gives up and blanks the screen again. The new unity lock screen appears to be missing this feature, as I woke up this morning to a password box filled with dots and a screen that had been on all night.
It looks like maybe there had been a failed attempt to address this use-case, as once one clears the password field and logs in, a second or two later, the screen re-locks and you need to log in again.
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| assignee: | nobody → Andrea Azzarone (andyrock) |
| Changed in unity: | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in unity: | |
| milestone: | none → 7.2.0 |
| status: | New → Triaged |
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| Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote | #1 |
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| david6 (andrew-dowden) wrote | #2 |
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| fugounashi (fugounashi+launchpad) wrote | #3 |
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| Mateusz Stachowski (stachowski-mateusz) wrote | #4 |
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| david6 (andrew-dowden) wrote | #5 |
| no longer affects: | unity |
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) → nobody |
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Wait. Is unity 7.2 targetted for trusty, or did this milestone target basically just say "leaving screens on all night is an acceptable behaviour for an LTS"?