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screensaver is behind the unity dash so impossible to unlock

Bug #848336 reported by Alan Bell on 2011-09-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #859991: Dash remains on top of screen locking dialog. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

in fully updated Oneiric if you leave the dash open and wait for the screensaver to cut in and lock the screen the screensaver does not blank the dash, it sits behind it. Worse, when you try to unlock the screensaver the login window is behind the dash so blurry and can't be typed in because the focus is a bit confused.

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-09-13

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Hugo Venhorst (yougo) wrote on 2011-09-13:

i can confirm this.

this can be repeated as well by opening the Dash, and then pressing CTRL+ALT+L (lock screen)

the type focus is in the password entry box, so you can type your password, and press enter, or you can press TAB to focus the lower left button that should say 'switch user'. that will take you to the login screen.

Also, the mouse does focus on the login window, and clicks 'through' the Dash.

note: after repeating this effect again, Xorg, Unity, Compiz and a few other graphics related things SIGSEV'd, see bug #849383

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-09-30

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2011-12-05:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 859991, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.