After running into several other situations where one of these logout/lock screen dialogs got wedged and I had to reboot, and after losing all my work several times because the default ctrl-alt-del action is to log out rather than lock the screen as it has been in Windows forever, I just set ctrl-alt-del to lock the screen with no prompts or dialogs. So I guess you can close this though I still think this area of ubuntu is poorly implemented
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1427795 Title: the lock screen/log out window is stuck rendering desktop unusable Status in Unity: Incomplete Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: After locking the screen via ctrl-alt-del, upon unlocking it, the "Hi $user, you have open files that you might want to save before logging out" is stuck in the middle of the screen. It will not close or allow typing in any window. The only way out is to kill the X server or reboot the machine losing all open work. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.2.4+14.04.20141217-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-31.41~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt5 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-31-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Mar 3 12:56:29 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-23 (8 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1427795/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
