Comment 55 for bug 1532508

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Free Beachler (tenacious) wrote : Re: [Bug 1532508] Re: Screen contents revealed briefly on resume, before even unlocking

From the investigation I performed earlier this week, this issue appears to
go back at least 10 years. The original report against Ubuntu 16 has a
video that demonstrates the problem clearly. It should suffice as steps to
reproduce.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 8:11 PM Daniel van Vugt <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I don't think we need new bug reports about this. I've just fixed the
> concern about "unrelated packages" by removing the irrelevant tasks at
> the top of the page. Only the gnome-shell task remains open.
>
> What we really need here is clear instructions for how to reproduce the
> bug in GNOME using a recent Ubuntu release.
>
> ** No longer affects: gdm3 (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Project changed: ubuntu-gnome => mir
>
> ** No longer affects: mir
>
> ** Tags added: hirsute
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1935690).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532508
>
> Title:
> Screen contents revealed briefly on resume, before even unlocking
>
> Status in GNOME Shell:
> Unknown
> Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in unity source package in Xenial:
> Fix Released
> Status in gnome-shell package in Debian:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> [Impact]
>
> When lock is enabled, the screen doesn't get blank/covered by
> lockscreen before suspending, thus on early resume the content might
> be shown.
>
> Video showing the bug: https://youtu.be/dDOgtK1MldI
>
> Reproduced on Ubuntu 2015.10, Ubuntu 2014.04
>
> [Test case]
>
> 1. Work on highly secret files
> 2. Close the lid of your laptop and go have a break
> 3. Anyone who opens the lid of the laptop can see the secret files for a
> half second before the lock screen appears
>
> [Possible Regression]
>
> Content on screen isn't painted anymore and screen stays black.
>
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>
>

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