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? 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 >> > >
