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X.org screensaver bypass foundX.org screensaver bypass foundPosted Jan 19, 2012 18:57 UTC (Thu) by theophrastus (guest, #80847)Parent article: X.org screensaver bypass found
sweet_zombie_jesus! (and here all this time i was typing in my password to get back in like a chump [wink]) can someone explain what proper function this 'feature' was intended to serve ...debugging backdoor? [looks down at keyboard and wonders about all the other possible ctrl-alt-strange_keys]
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X.org screensaver bypass found Posted Jan 19, 2012 19:38 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
It's meant to be a debugging aid for app and toolkit developers, who need to break stuck grabs from time to time. It wasn't meant to be enabled by default, but that apparently got lost in a miscommunication between myself and the keyboard layout maintainer, and I didn't think to double-check afterwards. Oh well.
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/attachments/201201... is the recommended patch.
X.org screensaver bypass found Posted Jan 20, 2012 0:57 UTC (Fri) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
This is now fixed with xkeyboard-config 2.5: http://listserv.bat.ru/xkb/Message/8375.html
X.org screensaver bypass found Posted Jan 26, 2012 22:19 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]
You must have had bothered to mark the change clearly in the code commit *you* made -- and must have had communicated that to the others working on it as well.
It's not "oh well". It's why six-month-craze is counterproductive.
#include <stdflame/ubuntu>
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