Bug 161352

Summary:	Lock screen leaves the screen dark with no dialogue box showing
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description Patrick O'Callaghan 2008-04-28 01:11:22 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.3)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

Right-click on desktop and select Lock Screen. Screen flashes and goes black (very briefly shows the "locked screen" dialogue box). The box still has focus, so typing one's password recovers the session. Occasionally before the black screen appears it shows a desktop with a different icon arrangement and wallpaper from usual, but this goes black at once.

Intel mobo with 965 video chipset, Samsung 920NW LCD widescreen, Fedora 9 Preview + updates. kdebase-workspace-4.0.3-17.fc9.x86_64.

Comment 1 Patrick O'Callaghan 2008-04-28 01:22:29 UTC

The mysterious desktop that flashes before going dark belongs to Gnome. I don't use Gnome but did once try it (so it's configured in my account). My display manager is KDM.

Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2008-04-28 17:38:51 UTC

You should probably do 'killall nautilus' to get rid of the always-running GNOME desktop window.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157878 ***

Comment 3 Patrick O'Callaghan 2008-04-28 21:53:52 UTC

Nautilus is indeed running, though I don't know why given that I'm not using Gnome. However killing it makes no difference to the flashing wallpaper.