Screen unlock password dialog stays visible and on top forever after unlocking
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KDE Base Workspace |
Fix Released
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High
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kde-workspace (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After locking the screen for extended periods, and then unlocking, the password entry dialog stays frozen on screen on top of all other windows forever (or until desktop effects are switched off and back on).
The behavior is known upstream as KDE bug #306186 [1], whose discussion includes an analysis of the problem and a simple patch. The patch has been commited upstream [2], and also applies cleanly against kde-workspace 4:4.9.4-0ubuntu0.2. As far as three to four days of testing indicates, it fixes the problem for me. I did nothing else except add the upstream patch to debian/patches and appended its name to debian/
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description: | updated |
Changed in kdebase-workspace: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
This does not happen all the time, but once it has only restarting KDE removes the dialog
1) lock your desktop
2) unlock you desktop
the dialog that you get to enter your password stays on the screen (see screenshot) and does not go away unless you kill KWIN (which obviously doesn't help really) or restart KDE all together.
Even locking and unlocking the screen afterwards doesn't improve the situation, even worse, I have a dual screen and after several lock/unlock I have that dialog in the middle of both my displays.
The dialog can not be clicked or interacted with, actually the windows below it can be clicked at, so it seems a drawing issue, the window doesn't seem to exist anymore.
Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1) lock your desktop
2) unlock you desktop