Suspend from KDE4-Menu (Kickoff) will not lock screen on resume

[Sokraates]

Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex. Fresh installation last updated 15.10.2008, around 23:15.

Suspending from the Guidance Power Manager-applet works and prompts for a password on resume (as it should, since "Lock screen on resume" selected).

Suspending from the KDE4-Menu will also work but the screen is not locked on resume. Rather the desktop is shown right away. It's also strange that in the menu, suspend and hibernate have the same icon, while the Guidance Power Manager-applet shows different ones.

The explanation of this problem may be, that the Menu doesn't share the settings made in the Guidance Power Manager-applet. Still it's confusing, since a user would expect suspend to work the same, no matter from where it is invoked. Furthermore there's no way to change whether suspending from the menu should lock the screen on resume.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Confirming.
Assigning to kubuntu-default-settings, but not sure about it.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Assigning to kdebase-workspace.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

KDE 4.2/Kubuntu 9.04 will come with a new power manager called powerdevil, it is integrated into the most central part of a KDE desktop and gets used by every application which deals with any kind of powersaving/hibernate/suspend etc. (that includes Kickoff).

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The fix has been released in Jaunty.

[Christian Heimes (heimes)]

Is there a fix or workaround for Intrepid? I'm feeling nervous about leaving my laptop unprotected ...

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I could imagine to have a script, which locks the desktop ("qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock") and then does the hibernation (through "pm-hibernate").
Then, use this script instead of the menu item.

I agree that a fix for this would be nice in Intrepid.

[Sokraates (sokraates)]

@Christian Heimes: The problem only occurs when I suspend from the kickoff menu.

Suspending by right clicking on the battery widget (guidance power manager) or by closing the laptop lid locks the screen fine.

[Lari Natri (larva)]

Though this bug is marked as 'fix released', the problem still exists, at least for me, in fully updated Jaunty alpha on 27 Feb 2009.

I have enabled 'Lock screen on resume' in System Settings / Power Management / General Settings. When I suspend from the Powerdevil battery monitor plasmoid, screen is locked on resume, as it should. But if I suspend from the Kickoff menu, or from the command line by executing pm-suspend, the screen is *not* locked when coming back.

This is definitely an important security issue.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Re-opening according to previous comments. Also raising importance to Medium.