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Bug 773648 - Disable screen blanking while during unlock operations
Disable screen blanking while during unlock operations
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: lock-screen
3.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-10-28 21:17 UTC by Stephen Michel
Modified: 2021-07-05 14:45 UTC
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Description Stephen Michel 2016-10-28 21:17:50 UTC 
Originally from bug #710904, there are two times when the (locked) screen should never turn off:

1. When playing music over hdmi (or other video/audio out where turning off the screen might also turn off the speakers). In this case, the screen should be blacked but the backlight should remain on.

2. During log-on. There was a user who uses kerberos and login takes a while, whose login process was interrupted by the screen turning off, forcing him to wiggle his mouse until login completes. Instead, the screen should always stay on while waiting for authentication, and the timer to turn it off should start after authentication has finished.

Bug #773645 would provide a workaround for these issues, allowing the user to force the screen on, but that would not fix this issue, since those users could then not have their screen turn off quickly when not logging in or playing music.
Comment 1 Benjamin Berg 2017-06-09 17:42:49 UTC 
It is generally better to open multiple bugs rather than combining two issues into one. That said, the first issue is a duplicate of bug #753429.

The second issue seems like a gnome-shell bug. I think the right way to fix this is to call _setActive(false) earlier in screenShield.js so that the screensaver is not active from g-s-d point of view. This is similar to how it is activated late so that the lock animation can finish before screen blanking happens.
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 14:45:23 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of  gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
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