When display is unlocked via VNC, screensaver does not lock screen again after inactivity
Bug #1361551 reported by
Richard Mitchell
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #49579: screen doesn't lock when some menu is open.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Bug Description
Consider the following, real scenario:
I have my office computer set to automatically lock after 5 minutes. I leave for the weekend and the following day I SSH to my computer with a local redirect to :5900 and start x11vnc -display :0. I unlock my screen and proceed to use the computer over VNC. I then disconnect from VNC. I later return to my office computer to find it unlocked, in the state I left the session on VNC.
Expected behaviour: the screensaver automatically locks the computer after 5 minutes of inactivity, regardless of the VNC session.
Ubuntu: 12.04.5 (Precise)
gnome-screensaver: 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
Revision history for this message
| Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote | #1 |
| information type: | Private Security → Public |
| Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 49579, so it is being marked as such.
This is a fundamental bug in the design of X11 and cannot be easily fixed within X11.
You should manually lock your screen if a locked session is important to you.
Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.