missing option to disable gnome-shell lock screen shield

[David Kiliani]

The new lock screen always displays a screen shield, which has to be manually removed by pressing Esc key before the password can be entered. This is annoying in comparison with the old solution, where the password could be entered immediately and is completely unnecessary for a desktop PC.

Please add an option to either completely disable the screen shield or better yet to make it vanish as soon as a character is entered or the mouse is moved.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.5.91-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-14.15-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 12 14:09:42 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-07 (4 days ago)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

Is this possibly fixed in the latest version of gnome-control-center? (We're a version behind, so if gnome-shell is looking for the Lock setting in a different place, it's easy to see how this could happen).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

This is unrelated to gnome-control-center, the only option in there is to completely disable screen locking.

Current methods for lifting screen shield as of 3.6 are Esc, Enter and Mouse Scroll Wheel and I am not aware of any upstream plans to implement anything further.

[CarbonPepper (carbonpepper)]

This is quite an irritating UI decision. For those that like it, that's fine, but an option should exist to disable the shield.

[Matthijs Kooijman (matthijskooijman)]

This was fixed upstream, by allowing opening the shield on any printable character keypress, and entering that character into the password field, so you can just type your password while the shield is still shown / moving away.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686740

According to git, this change was first released in 3.7.92.

[Naviathan (naviathan)]

This is ridiculous, the problem is I don't have the option to remove this
stupid shield. I don't want it. I don't lock the screen on my home
workstation, I don't see a need for it. When I wake my machine up I want
the desktop, not a shield.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Matthijs Kooijman <email address hidden>
wrote:

> This was fixed upstream, by allowing opening the shield on any printable
> character keypress, and entering that character into the password field,
> so you can just type your password while the shield is still shown /
> moving away.
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686740
>
> According to git, this change was first released in 3.7.92.
>
> ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #686740
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686740
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049645
>
> Title:
> missing option to disable gnome-shell lock screen shield
>
> Status in “gnome-shell” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> The new lock screen always displays a screen shield, which has to be
> manually removed by pressing Esc key before the password can be
> entered. This is annoying in comparison with the old solution, where
> the password could be entered immediately and is completely
> unnecessary for a desktop PC.
>
> Please add an option to either completely disable the screen shield or
> better yet to make it vanish as soon as a character is entered or the
> mouse is moved.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
> Package: gnome-shell 3.5.91-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-14.15-generic 3.5.3
> Uname: Linux 3.5.0-14-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu7
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Wed Sep 12 14:09:42 2012
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64
> (20110427.1)
> SourcePackage: gnome-shell
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-07 (4 days ago)
>
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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Note that starting in Ubuntu 17.10, gnome-shell will be used with lightdm so this problem should be eliminated in not already. But also...

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

And already fixed according to the upstream bug.