[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#489032: Bug#489032: consolekit: provide X11 parking facility

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Michael,

Michael Biebl [2008-07-19  3:48 +0200]:
> Could you please provide a link to the gdm patch.

Attached.

> I'm still not sure, why this is a consolekit bug at all and not
> solely a  gdm issue. Could you please elaborate, why this requires a
> fix in  consolekit?

It's not really a bug, it's an additional feature to support the way
the old gdm (2.20, as we have in Debian/Ubuntu) works. That does not
run a real desktop session for the greeter/password UI, so you cannot
e. g. switch virtual consoles under gdm without the CK/gdm patches. VT
I also remember problems with returning to the gdm screen once an
user session ended, but that was not 100% reproducible (VT switch race
condition with ConsoleKit, I guess).

It's been a while since we applied this, and the patches were
definitively necessary at that time. gdm didn't change a lot since
then, but CK did. If you don't have these kind of VT switching
problems at all in Debian, then please feel free to ignore those.

James Westby [2008-07-21 14:00 +0100]:
> This is more of a workaround I think. I'm not sure approach was
> taken in the new gdm to mean that this is not needed.

The new gdm (2.22) runs a real GNOME session for its UI, including
gnome-power-manager and all that. As such, it automatically gets a
proper ConsoleKit session, unlike gdm itself, which has to register
one for itself manually.

Disclaimer: I didn't write these patches myself, so I never really
understood them fully. It might be enough to just add a CK registering
call to gdm without that CK patch.

Thanks,

Martin

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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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