----- Original Message ----- > > When I lock the screen in Gnome Shell, a shield screen appears when I > > hit any key (including e.g. Shift). This is good. > > > > However, when the screen saver/monitor power save kicks in, but the > > lock is set to a higher timeout, e.g. 30 minutes, no shield screen > > appears after hitting a key. Instead, whatever key you typed is sent > > to the application that has focus, but you can't know what application > > that is ahead of time because the screen is in power save. I find > > myself accidentally typing my password into random windows because I > > assume the screen is fully "locked" but it is just in power save mode. > > I.e. it is hard to distinguish between these two cases. > > So why have you set the lock screen to a longer delay than your power save > mode? By default, the lock screen is activated immediately after power save > mode kicking in: > http://i.imgur.com/wskfRAd.png That's correct for the lock screen, but the shield (eg. without the password page after the shield) is supposed to come up as soon as the screen goes into power saving mode. > > Proposal: invoke the shield screen even when the screen isn't fully > > "locked" yet, just in power save, to prevent keystrokes from being > > erroneously sent to applications when waking up the screen. > > That doesn't really make sense to me. You're basically asking for removal of > the the "Lock screen after blank for" option. If you don't like it, why do > you change it in the first place? Just leave it at the default value, which > is doing exactly what you're asking. Again, screen shield != screen lock. _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
