| Summary: | Screen locking doesn't work in desktop grid | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | i9i7 <i9i7soft> |
| Component: | effects-desktop-grid | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | major | Flags: | mgraesslin:
X11+
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| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 5.8.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
i9i7
2016-12-04 00:40:05 UTC
This is a well known limitation of X11 - see for example my blog post on the topic: https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/01/why-screen-lockers-on-x11-cannot-be-secure/ On Wayland the problem is fixed on X11 it's impossible to fix. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 78871 *** (In reply to Martin Gräßlin from comment #1) > This is a well known limitation of X11 - see for example my blog post on the > topic: > https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/01/why-screen-lockers-on-x11- > cannot-be-secure/ > > On Wayland the problem is fixed on X11 it's impossible to fix. Okay, though I guess I have to ask why the menus and overview mode in GNOME3 don't prevent screen locking. Am 4. Dezember 2016 19:27:36 MEZ, schrieb i9i7 <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org>: >https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373235 > >--- Comment #3 from i9i7 <i9i7soft@gmail.com> --- >(In reply to Martin Gräßlin from comment #1) >> This is a well known limitation of X11 - see for example my blog post >on the >> topic: >> >https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/01/why-screen-lockers-on-x11- >> cannot-be-secure/ >> >> On Wayland the problem is fixed on X11 it's impossible to fix. > >Okay, though I guess I have to ask why the menus and overview mode in >GNOME3 >don't prevent screen locking. Gnome is gnome, KWin is KWin. It's pretty useless to say that this works in gnome. It cannot with our implementation. |