This issue has evolved into a monster! It's now a pile of dupes of this
report, an epic saga that stretches back over a decade, and more than
one false claim of repair. Perhaps the steps to reproduce and/or
acceptance criteria weren't accurate.

On top of it -- the screen lock + suspend functionality is broken on
Ubuntu 18+, 20+. For years I've experienced a lock screen that requires
a double-unlock -- with each unlock screen apparently driven by a
different manager (is one X and another gnome?). Then after the double-
unlock I find all GUI apps have been killed. Meanwhile dmesg and syslog
have nothing to show for it. Multiple bug reports and SO threads have
also reported this, with more faux 'solutions' and 'workarounds',
similar to this report.

I think Team Ubuntu is unawares of the terrible state of the broken
suspend and lockscreen "features". If the Team is aware of these issues
and continues to promote Ubuntu non-headless as "ready for the
enterprise", then somebody should call Houston and let them know we've
got a problem. Some/all users cannot use suspend because they risk
losing work, which means increased risk of losing work due to battery
discharge. My laptop has become an always-on workstation thanks to
Ubuntu, and I'm constantly guarding against loss of work while using
Ubuntu.

So now, engineers and professionals that choose Ubuntu can expect a
workstation with an insecure lock screen and battery-drain from unusable
suspend. In other words, Ubuntu OS isn't ready for the enterprise,
unless it's headless.

If there were some decent writeups on how "community members" can go
from getting-started developing for Ubuntu to the more-advanced topics
of fixing problems like this, then maybe this wouldn't be such a
terrible situation.

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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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