Bug#813410: lock screen is not working when logged into gnome from sddm

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2016, ഫെബ്രുവരി 2 1:11:28 AM IST, Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
>Hello Pirate Praveen.
>
>On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:45:11PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>> package: sddm, gdm3, gnome-session
>> severity: important
>> 
>> Now it seems gnome session can lock screen only if logged in from
>gdm3
>> (isn't there a standard for display managers? is gnome breaking the
>> standard of sddm not implementing a new standard? can't changes be
>> better coordinated among DEs, can't we use freedesktop.org?). It
>makes
>> the whole system insecure as laptops when left unattended could be
>> misused by anyone without auto lock.
>> 
>> Same issue for switch user.
>
>Not sure why you think things will continue to work if you just
>replace random components of GNOME like this. You can replace
>anything you want, but if it breaks you get to keep all the pieces.
>The lock screen (et.al.) not working if you use another DM is
>a well known issue. I'm not sure if particular component
>can be "blamed" for this, since gnome-shell and gdm interaction
>isn't something all other DMs are in any way required to
>implement. Did SDDM claim it was a drop-in replacement for GDM?
>If so, please file a bug against SDDM.

All right. Let every project stay isolated and not care about interoperability.

A display manager has always been about managing multiple DEs. 

>Regards,
>Andreas Henriksson

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