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

[shirish शिरीष]

addition at bottom :-

On 5/21/15, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> @John my machine is not powerful enough to run kvm guest or
> virtualbox. It can kinda but everything becomes much slower.
>
> I finally downloaded and installed mate-screensaver from
> snapshot.debian.org although it was not much of lazyness as you
> suspected but dread as the possibility that I might need to also
> download some other components due to dependancy hell. That is why
> it's easier if the downgrade is within stable,testing,unstable and
> experimental and hence all four are in my /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> Anyways, early verdict is that the old version works fine, although
> would look for couple of days before giving the verdict in.
>
> [$] dpkg -l mate-screensaver mate-screensaver-common
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                           Version              Architecture
>       Description
> +++-==============================-====================-====================-=================================================================
> ii  mate-screensaver               1.8.1-1              amd64
>       MATE screen saver and locker
> ii  mate-screensaver-common        1.8.1-1              all
>       MATE screen saver and locker (common files)

and the issue is still there in mate-screensaver 1.8.1-1 . It worked
great when actively locking screen and was able to input password, but
once screensaver kicks in after 5-10 minutes of non-activity, cannot
get it to accept the password or to borrow Mike's precise statement :-

'the password field will not gain focus whatsoever' and had to (sadly)
kill mate-screensaver to get access to my GNOME/GTK-based
mate-session.

I would be re-logging to the session to see if the same behaviour
persists but at loss if the same thing happens.

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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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