Package: xfce4 Version: 4.8.0.3 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? In the Xfce Power Manager dialog, under "Extended," the checkbox for "Lock screen when going for suspend/hibernate" is checked. (An aside - that phrasing is a little clunky. Might I suggest "Lock screen during suspend/hibernate"?) I find that SOME times when I suspend for a short time (<5 minutes or so), I can wake the computer and return to my session without the screen being locked or authenticating myself. That has some concerning security implications, of course. I imagine that the cause is that the "lock screen" command is not completed before the ACPI suspend occurs. Could this be fixed with a simple wait for the lock screen portion of the sequence to return a good exit code before signaling an ACPI suspend? This does not explain, though, why it has failed to lock only when the suspend is for less than 5 minutes or so - I suspect that that may even just be a fluke, since the length of the suspend really shouldn't matter at all, as the way I understand Suspend to work, it does not allow any programs to do anything while suspended. Perhaps there is a time-checking component to how XFCE resumes from suspend which is interfering, wherein if the time difference between suspend and wake is less than the configured "put the computer to sleep" time (or its default, since I have that setting set to "never"), it will not bother to lock the screen? Further, on some resumes, I am able to see my desktop session for a split- second before the lock screen draws over it - this suggests that the locking happens upon resume, and not on suspend. I feel that locking the screen PRIOR to engaging the suspend would be much better, for reliability of operation (as in the main topic of this bug), security, and privacy (with regard to the split-second view of the desktop prior to being locked - imagine if some "unprofessional" image were being displayed for a split second when another person happened to open the lid of my laptop!). My apologies for the wall of text. I love your software and hope that it may flourish another thousand years! Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xfce4 depends on: ii gtk2-engines-xfce 2.8.1-3 ii orage 4.8.3-2 ii thunar 1.2.3-4+b1 ii xfce4-appfinder 4.8.0-3 ii xfce4-mixer 4.8.0-3+b1 ii xfce4-panel 4.8.6-4 ii xfce4-session 4.8.3-3 ii xfce4-settings 4.8.3-2 ii xfce4-utils 4.8.3-2 ii xfconf 4.8.1-1 ii xfdesktop4 4.8.3-2 ii xfwm4 4.8.3-2 Versions of packages xfce4 recommends: ii desktop-base 7.0.3 ii tango-icon-theme 0.8.90-5 ii thunar-volman 0.6.1-1 ii xfce4-notifyd 0.2.2-2 ii xorg 1:7.7+3~deb7u1 Versions of packages xfce4 suggests: ii xfce4-goodies 4.8.2 ii xfprint4 4.6.1-3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
