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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:19 am    Post subject: KDE: screen un-lock dialogue remanent on screen Reply with quote

Hello all.

After I unlock a KDE session, the small borderless window that collected the user's password remains on screen, on all desktops, above all other windows. This happens since KDE 4.9.0 (I'm now on 4.9.1) and only when the screen has been locked for at least 12 hours or so. Or maybe it's just the date change that triggers this behaviour.

Does anyone have the same problem :?:
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have had the same problem with KDE 4.9.1, but it is only after my laptop has been locked for several hours. I didn't have the problem with 4.9.0 but I'm not sure what the exact reason for the problem is.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can you please list everything you've installed together with KDE 4.9.1? Using genlop or anything similar.
Your statement makes me think the culprit is not KDE itself, but some supporting library, like mesa-8.1_rc1_pre20120814. My video driver is xf86-video-intel-2.20.6.

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I installed KDE I used the kde-meta package so I have all of the packages that are associated with that.

Code:
* dependency graph for kde-base/kde-meta-4.9.1
 `--  kde-base/kde-meta-4.9.1  ~amd64
   `--  kde-base/kate-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kate-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdeadmin-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdeadmin-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdeartwork-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdeartwork-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdebase-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdebase-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdeedu-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdeedu-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdegames-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdegames-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdegraphics-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdegraphics-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdenetwork-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdenetwork-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdeplasma-addons-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdeplasma-addons-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdetoys-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdetoys-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdeutils-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdeutils-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdeaccessibility-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdeaccessibility-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kde-l10n-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kde-l10n-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdebindings-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdebindings-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdesdk-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdesdk-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdewebdev-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdewebdev-meta-4.9.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
   `--  kde-base/kdepim-meta-4.9.1  (>=kde-base/kdepim-meta-4.4.11.1) ~amd64  [aqua=]
[ kde-base/kde-meta-4.9.1 stats: packages (19), max depth (1) ]


The version of mesa that I have installed is mesa-9_pre20120831-r1:0 and my video driver is xf86-video-intel-2.20.7. It is also probable worth noting that I also have the kde use flag enabled on a global scale.

If you are looking for any other information, let me know and I can list it here.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could you please run
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genlop kdeutils mesa xf86-video-intel

and get back with the output? (assuming you have installed genlop)
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is the output of genlop kdeutils mesa xf86-video-intel

Code:

!!! Error: no merge found for 'kdeutils'
 * media-libs/mesa

     Mon Aug 20 11:39:22 2012 >>> media-libs/mesa-8.1_rc1_pre20120814
     Sat Sep  1 23:30:40 2012 >>> media-libs/mesa-9_pre20120831
     Tue Sep  4 06:10:29 2012 >>> media-libs/mesa-9_pre20120831
     Wed Sep  5 08:42:26 2012 >>> media-libs/mesa-9_pre20120831
     Wed Sep  5 20:47:36 2012 >>> media-libs/mesa-9_pre20120831
     Thu Sep  6 00:08:14 2012 >>> media-libs/mesa-9_pre20120831-r1
     Fri Sep  7 03:07:23 2012 >>> media-libs/mesa-9_pre20120831-r1
 * x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel

     Sat Sep  1 23:32:14 2012 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.20.5
     Sun Sep  2 21:32:08 2012 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.20.6
     Tue Sep  4 06:56:12 2012 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.20.6
     Tue Sep 11 09:10:35 2012 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.20.7
     Tue Sep 11 23:31:05 2012 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.20.7


Let me know if you need any other information
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Damn, I wrote kdeutils but I meant kdelibs...
Last question, I promise :) : what is the output of
Code:
genlop kdelibs

Thank you for your help.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its no problem :)

Here is the output of genlop kdelibs
Code:
 * kde-base/kdelibs

     Mon Sep  3 06:33:13 2012 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-4.9.0
     Wed Sep  5 00:12:49 2012 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-4.9.1


If you need anything else just let me know.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

I have this problem as well, I guess since 4.9.0.
The 'dialog window' do disappear for me if I suspend the desktop effects (ALT+SHIFT+F12) and re-enable them (ALT+SHIFT+F12).
My uneducated guess is that this issue is in the composition engine of KDE, but I know nothing about Window managers ;)
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's good to know that there's a workaround, other than re-starting one's session :(
Thank you!
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have this problem as well... doesn't happen every time but it does happen a lot. So far my workaround is to
Code:
kquitapp kwin && kstart kwin
but that's an annoying thing to do every time you unlock.
Also I have not had ANY similar issues with any other dialogs or screen artifacts whatsoever -- only the unlock dialog.

I've got kde 4.9.1 at the moment but have had this problem since some version prior I'm not sure which. I kept hoping it would stop eventually after an upgrade but it never did.

I've got mesa-8.0.4-r1 and use the nvidia binary drivers (304.51).

I'm happy to test or provide any further information if anyone has any brilliant ideas...
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nasaiya wrote:
I have this problem as well... doesn't happen every time but it does happen a lot. So far my workaround is to
[..]
Also I have not had ANY similar issues with any other dialogs or screen artifacts whatsoever -- only the unlock dialog.


Hi, same issue here with a 32bit gentoo using nvidia binary driver 295.71 and composite manager on.

I'm not able to reproduce this problem since it happens randomly,
btw thanks for your solution it worked like a charm.

It seems to be a known issue (at least on kde bugtracker) maybe related to the composite manager:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306186

In another (duplicated report) someone suggested an alternative solution but i didn't tested it:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308116#c1
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like the issue is closed upstream. If you don't want to wait for 4.10, you can download a patch from there, or use this one:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rich0/fixlock-a0aacdae.patch

Just stick that file in /etc/portage/patches/kde-base/kwin/ and emerge -1 kwin.

Boy is that portage feature handy...
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