Re: screen lock shield

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:16:10PM +0000, Florian Müllner wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 5:18 AM Chuck Anderson <cra@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Unless you are seeing a bug, this is already the case - if you move the
> mouse instead of typing a key to wake up the screen, you should see the
> shield. And the shield will indeed consume keyboard input, however any
> printable key lifts the shield, so users can wake up the screen by simply
> typing their password. However when the screen is not yet locked, you get
> the result you are seeing - after the first keystroke has lifted the
> shield, all subsequent keyboard input ends up in the application that has
> keyboard focus.
> 
> I've filed https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773328 with a patch.

I think this is exactly right, thank you!
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