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Yes, I experience this routinely. As do many other people at my company.

In particular it happens when attaching external monitors while the screen is locked. There's a flash of the unlocked desktop.

I am guessing this is because the screen lock is an application drawing over top of the monitor, like XScreensaver on Linux does. A more secure-by-default architecture would have screen locking built into the display server at some lower level: If the screen is not unlocked, it will not allow the data to be passed to the GPU. It's easy for me to arm-chair architect though.



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