Bug#595384: gnome-power-manager started by gdm3?

[Michael Meskes]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:40:09AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> But this (knowing whether somebody's logged) in is what we should
> actually want to know.

Why? It doesn't make a difference if that somebody is logged in but not running
any power management software.

> Just checking for some running process is extremely error prone (program
> not installed, disabled by user, process died for other reasons, etc.
> pp.).

But it's that process that deals with the button event not the user.

> I agree with Josseling that ConsoleKit is the way to go, which does not
> mean that you have to implement it. But IMHO it's better to leave this
> open and wait until someone has time, than to hack a fix, just to get it
> closed.

I'm not trying to hack something to close the bug, I simply don't see a bug
here. If you do we should clone this bug report so the discussion goes back to
acpi-support as I've reassigned this report already.

Michael
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