Bug#439844: gnome-screensaver: Feature request: React on media keys

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 439844 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422390
thanks

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 22:50 +0200, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> It would be nice if Gnome-screensaver would pass keypresses for media keys
> (volume, mute) on to the underlying system that handles those events 
> (gstreamer?). As it seems all keyboard input gets grabbed and not handled by the
> window manager (which I suppose normally handles this).
> I realize a feature like this could be considered a security risk, as there is a
> possibility to interact with the users session.
> But the benefits of such a feature is that I would be able to change the volume of
> the music playing, or pausing an internet radio feed using my remote, even when
> the screensaver is running.

Hi,

This is upstream bug 422390.

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Sven Arvidsson
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