screensaver shows old screen content on return from sleep

Bug #955915 reported by Jeff Abrahamson
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

when gnome-screensaver activates after an idle period, and so then the screen blanks, then pushing the shift key to wake the monitors and to request that gnome-screensaver display an authentication box sometimes causes the old screen (pre-lock) to display briefly before the screen redraws blank with an authentication box. One can't interact with the old display, and it's brief, no more than a second before repaint, but from a privacy standpoint it's disturbing that the content is briefly visible.

I have gnome-screensaver configured to blank the screen on idle rather than to display pictures or animations.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-screensaver 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic 3.0.20
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 15 12:38:18 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-01-09 (66 days ago)

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Jeff Abrahamson (jeff-purple) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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thulle (thulle) wrote :

Affects me on 12.04 too, gnome-screensaver 3.4.1-0ubuntu1.

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cipher sheep (ciphersheep) wrote :

this persists in ubuntu 12.10, and also impacts mint 14

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Josh Fuhs (fuhsjr00) wrote :

I've seen this in Ubuntu 13.04

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riban (brian-riban) wrote :

I am seeing same symptoms in Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Final Beta 2. This uses xfce4 so this issue may not be gnome-screensaver specific. I believe this could be classed as a security issue because it occurs after sleep, before screen lock kicks in, so a user may have put the machine to sleep expecting it to be (fairly) secure but another user may subsequently see the desktop (and any open document). As a minimum it is a privacy issue.

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