On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 16:57 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Jedy: > > > I remember that you mentioned gnome-screensaver in the proposal of new > > gdm and consolekit you sent before. Is there any impact of > > gdm/consolekit integration to xscreensaver? Gnome-power-manager can > > cooperate with gnome-screensaver but currently solaris only ships > > xscreensaver. This works but it's not perfect. > > John Fischer is currently working on porting gnome-screensaver to > Solaris, so he would be a good person to get status from. > > How does gnome-power-manager cooperate with gnome-screensaver? Hi Brian,
Gnome-power-manager relies on several DBus signals and methods to identify if system is idle, to blank the display and to hibernate/suspend the system automatically. Currently, most of these is done by xscreensaver. And hibernating/suspending the system automatically is not supported. Regards, Jedy > > Brian > > > > Jedy > > On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 15:34 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > >> Jedy: > >> > >> > Because new gdm and consolekit have been integrated into vermillion. I > >> > updated the 07-logout-dialog.diff. Now the logout dialog does not > >> > depends on gnome-power-manager to restart/shutdown the system. > >> > >> Have you actually tested to make sure this works? Note that the > >> ConsoleKit code talks directly to RBAC and only makes the > >> shutdown/reboot options available if the "gdm" user has > >> the solaris.system.shutdown authority defined. > >> > >> So, I would expect this not to work as you expect unless ConsoleKit on > >> Solaris is enhanced to work the same way that GNOME Power Manager does. > >> > >> Since GNOME Power Manager talks to PolicyKit while GDM on Solaris > >> does not, it might be easier to continue using the Power Manager > >> interfaces on Solaris. > >> > >> What do you think? > >> > >> Brian > >> > > > > >
