This problem is also present in KDE, so it's not a bug exclusive to gnome-screensaver. As was said before, this is a problem with the way X was designed, and the solutions imply either re-designing X (I doubt there are many people up to such a task) or working around it.
For suspend/hibernate there's the inhibitor locks design doc from Freedesktop, that could allow adding some hooks and forcing pop-up windows to close just before suspending: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit It's a different story when trying to manually lock (ctrl-alt-l), since the keyboard is grabbed by the pop-up, no application receives the lock combination and no application can then act appropriately. In any case it's quite a hard bug to fix, that requires a well thought solution, not a quick hack to fix it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/49579 Title: screen doesn't lock when some menu is open Status in GNOME Screensaver: Confirmed Status in OEM Priority Project: Won't Fix Status in OEM Priority Project precise series: Won't Fix Status in “gnome-screensaver” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “gnome-screensaver” source package in Precise: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver I'm running a fresh install of Dapper with screensaver set to 'blank screen', and 'lock screen when screensaver is active' enabled. If a panel menu (e.g. Applications) is open and the machine is left idle, the screen fails to lock. It fades out after the time period as expected, but the desktop reappears after a few seconds. Ben (comments / criticism welcome, this is my first bug report) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-screensaver/+bug/49579/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
