securing wake from sleep

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 01:34 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> Is it KDE's job to secure the screen/keyboard behavior when suspending
> to RAM or disk?
> 
> I've noticed that on wake, with a password required for wake, that the
> screen before sleeping is visible before it's blanked.  Also, sometimes
> I can send keyboard input to the system before the blanked screen kicks
> in. The window of opportunity is pretty small for typing, and I can only
> read the screen for a few seconds, but it's not a secure wake.  I'm
> testing this on a netbook which takes its sweet time doing anything.

Same here. It looks like KDE resumes, then detects the wakeup signal and
decides it should lock the screen. The effect is definitely
counterintuitive. It would be interesting to know if Gnome has the same
behaviour.

poc