Can no longer prevent the screen from locking during idle fadeout

[Anders Kaseorg]

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

When the idle time reaches the screensaver timeout, gnome-screensaver beings to slowly fade out the screen. It used to be that if you noticed the screen fading out, you could hit a key or move the mouse to interrupt it and prevent the screen from locking; that’s useful if you’re just looking at the screen (watching a movie, say). In current maverick, however, the desktop is completely unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input during the slow fade-out. You now have to wait several seconds for the fade-out to complete, then unlock the screen using your password. Please restore the previous behavior and allow the fade-out to be interrupted.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Hmm, I can’t always reproduce this. Sometimes a keypress interrupts the fade-out and sometimes it doesn’t.

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 595555, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.