If screen is locked while kwin window highlighting effect is active, it becomes almost unusable — lockscreen (plasma-overlay) isn't visible (can enter the password to unlock), still user environment is on screen. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Activate highlight kwin effect, moving mouse over taskbar (I'm using icon-tasks if this is important) opened window button. That window would be highlighted. 2. Lock the screen. I have autolocking feature on, so this happens to me often. But Ctrl+Alt+L work well too. Actual Results: Lock screen isn't visible, still highlighted window is on screen. Password could be entered (esc, type password, enter — screen becomes unocked), but you can't see what is going on. Expected Results: Plasma-overlay should be seen after locking the screen. Killing kwin from tty helps to show lock screen. I think this is major bug due to lock screen doesn't perform one of its security features — hide user content from the screen.
Not necessarily "major" (i invoked sleep and qdbus to trigger that) but certainly a bug.
Git commit ada4b34275d7b31ce185f9038aa78389a1aa287f by Thomas Lübking. Committed on 12/02/2014 at 17:16. Pushed by luebking into branch 'KDE/4.11'. set highlightwindows inactive while screen locked FIXED-IN: 4.11.7 M +1 -1 kwin/effects/highlightwindow/highlightwindow.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/ada4b34275d7b31ce185f9038aa78389a1aa287f
*** Bug 331517 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***