Lock screen doesn't prevent media keys from working

[Jussi Lind]

Steps to reproduce:

1) Open a music player e.g. Audacious with some music content
2) Lock the screen
3) Press Play/Pause media button (I'm using an Apple USB keyboard)

What happens:

Audacious starts playing music.

What should happen:

Nothing, because the screen is locked.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: gnome-shell 42.9-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-100.110-generic 5.15.143
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-100-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Apr 7 17:55:16 2024
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-09 (1610 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 42.9-0ubuntu5
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2023-01-02 (460 days ago)

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Hello Jussi, thanks for the report. I believe this is an intentional design choice -- if someone cannot stop music gently they may do so violently.

Thanks

[Jussi Lind (jussi-lind)]

This bug was about STARTING the music or do whatever the key is mapped to do.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I'm not familiar with the reasoning for this, if it is an intentional design choice. If the issue still occurs in Ubuntu 24.04, which is about to be released, then please also report it at:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/new

and tell us the new issue ID.