Bug#785739: mate-screensaver: Not able to authenticate when screen is locked

[Mike Gabriel]

Hello Shirish, hello Adrian,

first of all, @Shirish, please follow Adrian's advise on this and the  
general purpose of bug reporting. I have also though about writing  
some general stuff back to you on this.

On  Di 19 Mai 2015 22:28:00 CEST, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> Control: tags -1 unreproducible
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>
> Hello Shirish!
>
> On 05/19/2015 08:36 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> Now even if I type the credentials the asteriks that should appear
>> (*******************) don't appear and authentication fails.
>
> I just tried to reproduce your problem and I was unable to,
> mate-screensaver 1.8.1-2 works as expected on my system. I can
> lock the screen and then type my password to unlock my screen
> again without any issues.

And... I have seen this issue, too. Just yesterday.

I need to sit down and reproduce it, though. What I had was:

   o and empty i3 desktop workarea
   o with only an rdesktop session running in windowed mode (not fullscreen)
   o mate-screensaver came on
   o the password field would not gain focus whatsoever

The easiest trick then is:

   o go to a text based tty
   o log in as the user running the MATE session
   o killall mate-screensaver
   o switch back to the MATE session (it is now unlocked)

Greets,
Mike
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