Review Request 122510: [screenlocker] Mark session as idle in logind while screen is locked

[David Edmundson]

> On Feb. 10, 2015, 1:29 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
> > I'm not convinced this is right.
> > 
> > From the doc you linked: 
> >  This is necessary for the system to implement auto-suspend when all sessions are idle.
> >  
> > When we lock the screen, powerdevil is still running, no?
> > 
> > Powerdevil has an inhibition blocking logind suspending, so I think overall this will just do nothing.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     The linked bug report gives another use case: cross-desktop check to see whether the session is idle.
>     
>     > Powerdevil has an inhibition blocking logind suspending, so I think overall this will just do nothing.
>     
>     Why is powerdevil holding an inhibition lock?

So we can implement auto suspend / key handling based on the user's KDE configs, not based on some global configs.


- David


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On Feb. 10, 2015, 1:21 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 10, 2015, 1:21 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Bugs: 271731
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271731
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> See the idle recommendations on [1]. Binding it to the lock screen does
> not exactly match the recommendation, but it has some advantages:
> * we know it's idle when it's locked
> * it kicks in after the user's configured idle timeout
> * if the user unlocks we know it's no longer idle
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> FEATURE: 271731
> FIXED-IN: 5.3.0
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> [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/writing-desktop-environments/
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> Diffs
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>   ksmserver/screenlocker/ksldapp.cpp e23b50fbcaac659bb6ef1b36a4de6efc63573978 
>   ksmserver/screenlocker/logind.h 99836734923740a1f0b23144f9effd815f104b74 
>   ksmserver/screenlocker/logind.cpp 5335b150bce8f38aee75ad30055bc0e248ed1bf1 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122510/diff/
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> Testing
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> Run the test application and verified using loginctl from tty1 while the screen was locked and after unlocked.
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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