[Mageia-dev] Fwd: Distributor notes about GNOME 3.6.0

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Mon Oct 1 10:42:54 CEST 2012


'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 01/10/12 09:28 did gyre and gimble:
> 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 25/09/12 21:32 did gyre and gimble:
>> 680689 (gnome-settings-daemon) power: enforcing lid close
>>
>> If you are using systemd >= 183, gnome-settings-daemon is now talking
>> to logind for suspend and lid-close handling. Due to the way the
>> logind API uses polkit, this can sometimes lead to a polkit
>> authentication dialog in response to a suspend request - which is
>> problematic when you just closed the lid. The policy which controls
>> when this occurs was made a little more forgiving in systemd 188, but
>> it can still happen.
>>
>> With system 191, a new API was introduced that lets us avoid this
>> problem altogether, and bug 680689 has a patch to make use of this,
>> but it is too invasive to land for 3.6.0 at this point. If you are
>> shipping with systemd >= 191, you should consider using this patch.
> 
> Now that we have the latest systemd, I will apply the latest version of
> this patch to cauldron.

Actually, it might be better to wait a little while as the patch seems
somewhat incomplete...

Lid suspending seems OK, but the Suspend menu seems a little bit less
than ideal - maybe this is OK, tho'.


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