** Description changed:

- Please see:
+ [Impact]
+ Users running gnome-screensaver or cinnamon-screensaver may get their lock 
screen bypassed by users pressing the menu key before the password prompt turns 
up.
  
+ [Testcase]
+ Start GNOME or any other desktop running gnome-screensaver.  Open a terminal. 
Lock the screen.  Before pressing any other key, press the menu key on the 
keyboard.
+ 
+ Results:
+  * Without this patch: the menu comes up and after that the terminal, being 
the window that had focus before the lock, receives all keyboard input.  It's 
very hard to get the input to go to the password field.
+  * With this patch: the password prompt comes up and has focus. Any keys 
pressed go to the password field.
+ 
+ [Regression potential]
+ The patch removes one function from gtk-window (popup-menu) that was only 
present for a short time.  It's already been removed in the gtk version present 
in Utopic. It's very unlikely that any other issues will come up because of 
this.
+ 
+ [More info]
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759145
+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064695
+ https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2014-January/msg03294.html
+ https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/44

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  Fix for CVE-2014-1949 (GTK 3.10.x)

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