After the reinstall xscreensaver is still locking by default. I can disable this feature in Settings and it is now fine (Because it does not lock). However, I wanted this locking feature, it is still a bug in that enabling this locking feature still locks the screen for the guest account, which uses a blank password to sign in (which then cannot be used by xscreensaver because it does not accept null/blank passwords. I would suggest that fresh installs of xscreensaver disable screenlock by default. I believe as far as light-dm is concerned, after a quick google search i found that the setting or flag it needs to enable to prevent screenlocking might be available in gconf... but i dont know the specific area where this would need to be implemented without looking...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1610619 Title: Xscreen saver and lightdm prevent use of operating system (total lockout) after guest session screen lock Status in xscreensaver: New Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Steps to reproduce bug: 1) Install xubuntu or mint xfce 2) download and set lightdm as desktop manager 3) sign in to a guest session and either close your laptop lid or allow timeout to start screen lock Why this is a bug: xscreensaver will not accept a blank/null password, and with a blank/null password assigned to the guest session, the xscreensaver client will not allow the user to continue their session or login as a new user (because you cannot login as a new user as xscreensaver does not support lightdm for this feature. Why this is severe: when xscreensaver locks the guest user out of their session, all other users are similarly locked out. Being so locked out, the computer most be hard-reset/rebooted and any documents and processes not saved prior to the guest session being logged in is lost. Why this is a lightdm bug: Because lightdm is not setting the gconf setting to disable the lock screen feature for guest sessions Why this is a xscreensaver bug: xscreensaver does not support any dm other than mdm To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xscreensaver/+bug/1610619/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
