Lockscreen multiscreen behavior

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Sunday, June 21, 2015 23:49:32 Alexander Potashev wrote:
> 2015-06-17 6:30 GMT+03:00 Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org>:
> > When we redid the lockscreen to be in QML with the lock always shown we
> > did
> > it that way on purpose. The main problem is that we don't know which
> > screen
> > the user is expecting it to be on. Even more we don't know whether the
> > primary screen is actually the user's primary screen. We cannot expect
> > users to configure it as they use it.
> 
> Can we put all the screens in clone mode when screen is locked? This
> way the user will see the mouse pointer and the password input focused
> on any screen.

I fear this will be a very jarring user experience as long as we're on X11. 
Screen switching is a very painful, slow and error prone process. It's also 
pretty much impossible to make it look neat.
-- 
sebas

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