reassign 601761 gnome-screensaver thanks Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 12:43 +0200, Florian a écrit : > - Make seahorse-agent ask for a password (e.g. start an application who asks > for a keyring pw) > - With the pw dialog open, try to activate the screensaver--it will not > activate > > This does not happen with other pw dialogs (e.g. icedove master pw, etc) > > This poses a potential security risk if the screensaver is set to be > activated automatically > and some application asks for the password before (e.g., getting an encrypted > IM message, ...) > -> the screen gets never locked
I don’t think this is fixable with the way X is designed. Seahorse (and same for gnome-keyring) has to grab the X server input when asking the password. When input is grabbed, gnome-screensaver has to disable itself - it doesn’t receive the events anymore. And there you go. Cheers, -- .''`. : :' : “You would need to ask a lawyer if you don't know `. `' that a handshake of course makes a valid contract.” `- -- J???rg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
