screen-saver does not lock after movie/music played

[Patrik Nilsson]

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

After a movie/music (Movieplayer) has been played and the screensaver times out, the screensaver does not lock the screen. It goes blank if you have set it to do it, but you can touch any key to activate the screen and you can start using it.

After one touch and the screensaver times out, everything works again.

The screensaver should lock after timing out, after music/movie played.

gnome-screensaver: 2.30.0-0ubuntu2
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for reporting this issue.

Could you please give the exact steps necessary to reproduce this issue, including which media player you are using?

[Patrik Nilsson (nipatriknilsson)]

At the time of reporting, the steps to reproduce was:

1) Play a video with totem
2) Wait for the video to finish
3) Wait for the screen saver to activate
4) Press a key or move mouse to enter Ubuntu

Today I couldn't reproduce the issue.

 status invalid

On 02/11/2011 05:00 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this issue.
>
> Could you please give the exact steps necessary to reproduce this issue,
> including which media player you are using?
>
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

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[Patrik Nilsson (nipatriknilsson)]

The bug is still there, but I haven't figured out what really triggers it.

The procedure to provoke totem is outlined above.

 status new

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Is totem still open when you expect the screensaver to come up?

[Patrik Nilsson (nipatriknilsson)]

On 02/19/2011 04:40 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> Is totem still open when you expect the screensaver to come up?

totem can be in the foreground (video) or background (music) when
playing. If I touch the mouse/a key *immediately* *after* the media
stopped playing the screensaver is activated as expected, otherwise
sometimes not. (You can't manually stop a totem playing, then you move
the mouse.)

Sometimes this bug doesn't come up immediately after restart. It seems
as the erroneous behavior continues until restart of the computer and
something again triggers it after some media played.

totem is running all the time; window is open (background or foreground).

A moment ago the bug didn't come up when playing videos, but after
playing a sound, the videos also is affected. Just a theory.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Patrik Nilsson (nipatriknilsson)]

I think this is a serious security issue. You should know that you can leave the computer and no one is able to get into your work, once the time-out of the screensaver is elapsed.

The outline to reproduce this bug is described above and I answer requests of to assist Ubuntu being better. Does a post of a video dump of the screen make any difference?