Deskbar Activates Through Locked Screensaver

[johnrash@…]

If you enable password locking with any of the screen savers included with Haiku, if you move the mouse to the location of the Deskbar it will show on top of the locked screen saver, allowing unauthorized access to the system.

[johnrash@…]

Screenshot of Deskbar on top of locked screensaver.

[anevilyak]

Is the "Always on Top" option in Deskbar's settings menu enabled by any chance? If so, could you check if it happens with it disabled also?

[johnrash@…]

Replying to anevilyak:

Is the "Always on Top" option in Deskbar's settings menu enabled by any chance? If so, could you check if it happens with it disabled also?

It is disabled. If enable it, the Deskbar shows up immediately when the "Unlock screen saver" dialog is displayed, instead of having to move the mouse over it.

[the ringmaster]

This is due to the auto-raise feature of of the deskbar. Disable it, and you will not have this problem. shouldn't anyway. The devs should make the auto-raise feature temporarily disabled during screensaver times.

[johnrash@…]

Replying to the ringmaster:

This is due to the auto-raise feature of of the deskbar. Disable it, and you will not have this problem. shouldn't anyway. The devs should make the auto-raise feature temporarily disabled during screensaver times.

That workaround works, Thanks!

[axeld]

This is a combined problem of the screen_blanker application (which shouldn't use a normal window feel for the screen saver), and the app_server as the obvious solution to use the correct feel (the most privileged kWindowScreenFeel) doesn't work either.

[axeld]

The problem with kWindowScreenFeel was that BDirectWindow::SetFullScreen(false) did always change the feel back to B_NORMAL_WINDOW_FEEL instead of restoring the previous one. This particular problem is fixed in hrev27920.

Now, setting kWindowScreenFeel works fine, and I changed screen_blanker to use it in hrev27921. However, since the password window is not modal, you can bring the screen saver into the foreground, making it impossible to enter the password. But this belongs to another bug (I'll open it now).

Also note, that BeOS also shows the Deskbar in case "Always On Top" is selected (but it doesn't pass any mouse movements to it in case there is a window screen). So whatever solution we come up with will not be 100% BeOS compatible (but eventually saner :-)).