Bug 418893

Summary: The 'lock the session' button does not always blank the screen
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Quentin Jackson <quentin.jackson>
Component: KDE3Assignee: Lubos Lunak <llunak>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P2 - High CC: wstephenson
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.0   
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Found By: Customer Services Priority:
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Description Quentin Jackson 2008-08-20 19:29:10 UTC 
When clicking the lock the session button in the bottom right corner of the kde3 desktop, the screen is not always blanked, while the screen is not blanked (though is locked) you can see background messages pop up.  When this happens I need to unlock the session and relock the session to blank the screen.  This has been present on different hardware, different graphics drivers (nv and nvidia) and different architectures (32 and 64 bit).
Comment 1 Lubos Lunak 2008-08-25 13:09:27 UTC 
Can you reproduce this with a newly created user? Does it exist with using only the blank screensaver? Is it specific to some screensaver? Is there some (semi-)reliable way to reproduce this problem?
Comment 2 Quentin Jackson 2008-08-27 07:09:24 UTC 
Sorry, yes this happens with any user and sorry it's with the blank screensaver only so far.  It doesn't happen every time but I'd say 1-2 times in every 10.
Comment 3 Lubos Lunak 2008-08-28 12:24:43 UTC 
After reading the description again, are you saying that you can really see even things changing (e.g. if you have a web page with animations open, you can still see them moving while the screen is locked but the screensaver is broken)?
Comment 4 Quentin Jackson 2008-08-29 06:20:12 UTC 
Yes I believe so, I didn't try with animations but what it was was that I could see an msn message had come in in the background or something (it was a few weeks ago now).  I'm trying to replicate with an animation open but can't get it to fault right now, however it faulted twice today on another machine during work.
Comment 5 Will Stephenson 2008-09-08 10:13:08 UTC 
This is a long-standing problem with Kopete's message notification bubble.  Can you have a look at it and let me know if it's a Kopete problem or if you have trouble reproducing it.
Comment 6 Quentin Jackson 2008-09-09 01:37:42 UTC 
Thanks, however while there may be a problem with Kopete, this is not the problem I am describing as it also happens on a machine where Kopete has never been used.  What I'm saying is that the screensaver comes on but does not blank the screen, ie as if the screen was transparent.  You wouldn't know the screensaver was on at all except for the fact that when you press a key or move the mouse a dialog pops up asking to enter a password to get out of the screensaver.  So in other words, once pressing the lock button it is as if nothing has happened, though in fact 'technically' it is on.
Comment 7 Lubos Lunak 2008-11-21 17:15:43 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 403135 ***