Bug 290063

Summary: Lock button and keyboard shortcut for locking the screen do not work in Netbook workspace mode
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Paolo Poli <askrym>
Component: plasma-netbookAssignee: Marco Martin <notmart>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: bugs, shafff, thijs22nospam, uraharakisuke153
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.7.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Paolo Poli 2011-12-29 02:21:32 UTC
Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.3) 
OS:                Linux

i have searched the bugzilla with "lock screen netbook workspace" keywords but it returned 0 results, so i'm posting the problem i have.

(in Kubuntu 11.10 32bit - KDE 4.7.3 Netbook workspace mode) Clicking the LOCK BUTTON(on-top-bar) to lock the screen does not work ; neither does right clicking(near widgets)+lock screen and ctrl+alt+L ; i found it strange and tried also other shortcuts like ctrl+esc to bring up the system activity.

None of these seemed to work for me, i'd like to specify that i encountered this problem on a very fresh install of kubuntu (both before & after updating the packages).

Checked the daemon for the keyshortcuts too and it was up and running.

As final test (in the same session) i have switched from netbook workspace mode to classic workspace and confirmed it was working perfectly in the classic workspace.

thus i think there should be some problem related to the netbook workspace mode that somehow hinibits these functions.
i'm currently using the classic workspace to avoid that.

i hope my report will be of any help to solve this for the sake of all :-)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) fresh install kubuntu 11.10 32bit
2) log in with the netbook workspace mode
3) click the lock screen button on the top bar OR ctr+alt+L OR right click+lockscreen
4) screen lock does not work

Actual Results:  
it actually happens nothing at all

Expected Results:  
the screen should have locked

no additional information, very standard computer o.s. setup, out of the box
Comment 1 Thijs 2012-01-20 13:25:56 UTC
Confirmed for 4.7.4 with bug 268437 and bug 251434 as similar bugs.
Comment 2 Thijs 2012-05-28 18:08:15 UTC
..But in 4.8.3, all seems to work for me. Do you still experience this bug?
Comment 3 Samuel Orr 2012-12-15 18:47:06 UTC
I still encounter this bug using KDE 4.8.5 on openSUSE 12.2. If I use the right click menu to lock or even a widget added on top of the search and launch, nothing happens. Though I can use the same widget and menu to access the log out prompt. However, It seems if I activate krunner though run command all of a sudden the lock screen works. I have a video here demonstrating it: http://youtu.be/N94dPY3csTo
Comment 4 csbugs 2013-02-14 12:58:15 UTC
Can confirm that the behaviour is present under openSuSE 12.2 and KDE 4.8.5, and also that the behaviour changes when I enable krunner in Systemsettings
Comment 5 Nick Shaforostoff 2013-02-14 15:01:31 UTC
another issue about keyboard-friendliness: bug 315136