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Lock Screen not working after monitor plugged / unplugged (need to restart mate-screensaver) #170

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ilius opened this issue Sep 14, 2018 · 5 comments

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@ilius
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ilius commented Sep 14, 2018

Expected behaviour

When plug / unplug a monitor, Lock Screen should work like before

Actual behaviour

When plug / unplug a monitor, Lock Screen does not work unless I restart mate-screensaver

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

  • Login to MATE with a laptop while external monitor is attached via HDMI
  • Select from menu: System -> Lock Screen -> It works, now we unlock the screen
  • Unplug the HDMI cable
  • Select from menu: System -> Lock Screen -> nothing happens
  • Run killall mate-screensaver ; mate-screensaver &
  • Select from menu: System -> Lock Screen -> It works again

MATE general version

1.20.1

Package version

mate-screensaver 1.20.0-1

Linux Distribution

Linux Mint 19 Tara

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@lukefromdc
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Can you test mate-screensaver 1.20.2? It contains
#167
which fixed a very similar problem where power cycling a monitor could get out of the screensaver.

@ilius
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ilius commented Sep 14, 2018

@lukefromdc Thank you, I will try to test with the latest code

@monsta
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monsta commented Sep 24, 2018

Should be fixed by 1.20.2, like #155 or #158

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@sunweaver
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This is CVE-2018-20681

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city41 commented Apr 25, 2019

I also experience this with 1.20.1, and with 1.20.2 it does seem to be fixed.

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