Bug#620128: gnome-screensaver + laptop docking == DA FAIL

[Pierre Habouzit]

Package: gnome-screensaver
Version: 2.30.0-3
Severity: important

If you use a laptop with a docking station that has an external
additional monitor, and that the screensaver is locked, the display gets
automatically resized by xrandr, *BUT* the gnome-screensaver dialog
often loses focus (if the dialog is appeared before the screen is
resized, which happens most of the time). The sad reality is that it's
NOT possible to give back the focus to the password input field… (or
even click "OK" which would at least reset the dialog) which in turn
makes login into X impossible.

The sole way to login into X is then to go to a console, kill the
gnome-screensaver process with "--showdialog" (or something similar) in
the command line arguments. That kills the dialog, which is then started
again, *and* is focus-able again.

This bug is not 2.30 related, I've had it for a long time already, but
today it was just one time too many :|

If that matters I'm not using metacity but awesome as a window-manager
which /could/ explain the focus loss.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                   1.4.6-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                     2.28.1-6      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme           2.30.3-2      GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session-bin          2.30.2-3      The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii  libc6                      2.11.2-13     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                  1.10.2-6      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.4.6-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.92-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                2.28.1-6      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]   7.10-4        A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.28.4-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-17      2.30.2-2      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2             2.30.3-2      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnomekbd4               2.30.2-2      GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.24.3-1~sid1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam0g                   1.1.2-2       Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.28.3-5      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.4.2-1     X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                   2:1.2.0-2     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxklavier16              5.0-2         X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxxf86vm1                1:1.1.1-1     X11 XFree86 video mode extension l

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.32.0-2   power management tool for the GNOM
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          2.30.3-5   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver suggests:
pn  rss-glx                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  xscreensaver-data             5.11-1+b1  data files to be shared among scre

-- no debconf information