I am usually in a windows VM full screen. So first I have to hit the nix attention button, then alt-ctrl-up to get to a nix desktop. This still doesn't give me keyboard control, but if I mouse over to the upper right like you're describing, but all I have to do is get the calendar icon to pop open, or the switch user menu or something. Don't actually have to click on anything, just get those things to respond. Then, finally, the login password prompt will respond. Clumsy but it works.
Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® II, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: NoBugs! <1305...@bugs.launchpad.net> </div><div>Date:05/02/2014 2:45 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: m...@lorimarksolutions.com </div><div>Subject: [Bug 1305586] Re: Lock screen is unusable when some windows have a keyboard/mouse grab </div><div> </div>When this happened to me, I could choose switch-account from the upper right menu, then log back in to my session. Is this the same behavior you see? -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a duplicate bug report (1311036). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305586 Title: Lock screen is unusable when some windows have a keyboard/mouse grab Status in Unity: Triaged Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: My screen just timed out and locked when a password prompt which had a grab was displaying. I couldn't type my password or interact with the indicators. gnome-screensaver just refuses to lock in this situation, perhaps unity could do the same unless it's possible to remove and readd the grabs yourself, but I don't think XLib lets you do that (you can only remove your own grabs AFAIK). TEMPORARY WORKAROUND TO LOGIN AGAIN: Click on the guest session Once the guest session is started log out This takes you back to the lightdm session screen you can then login to your user session and it be in the same state ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1 [origin: unknown] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-23.45-generic 3.13.8 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CrashDB: unity CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Apr 10 09:39:45 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-07 (549 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20121007) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-05-07 (338 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1305586/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305586 Title: Lock screen is unusable when some windows have a keyboard/mouse grab To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1305586/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
