When super key was pressed while screen is locked, dash appears after login

[Tobias Gauster]

As I don't think this is a feature, I'm filing a bug report.

When pressing the super key (Windows key, Mod4) when the screen is locked (ie via Ctrl + Alt + L), then the Dash home is shown with the cursor in the search field. This is reproducible. I'd expect to find my session, exactly as I left it ignoring all the commands while the screen is locked.

Another strange thing happened, which I unfortunately wasn't able to reproduce: I was pressing a lot of buttons (cleaning my keyboard) while the screen was locked and suddenly the the desktop showed up. Everything was blurred also the window for entering the password to unlock the screen. But hitting Esc I got the usual lock screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-screensaver 3.1.92-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 25 14:11:11 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, I can confirm that

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Sam says "it's probably a unity thing, I think passive key grabs are allowed to activate when there's a global grab, so maybe unityshell should check if the screen is grabbed first before opening the dash"

-> unity