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

[Tim]

On 03/02/16 00:00, Pirate Praveen wrote:
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> I used xlock as a workaround, but gnome-shell should fallback to using
> gnome-screensaver if gdm3 is not available. Keeping the machines
> (laptops) unlocked is not a good default, especially when suspended.
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> This is basic functionality we are talking about and not some exotic
> nice to have feature.
gnome-shell should automatically fallback to locking using gnome-screensaver (via dbus activation) when you are not using gdm. So unless things
have changed recently the only requirement is to have gnome-screensaver package installed.
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>>> Same issue for switch user.
>> There is no standard for user switching, gdm, lightdm and probably sddm all have their own interfaces for user switching.
> It would be good to have a standard and I think debian gdm maintainers
> are the right people to initiate - being in a position to support
> multiple DEs, such a standard.
It would be good, lightdm have a "org.freedesktop.login1.Manager" dbus interface which despite the name is not a spec, which works ok as a
fallback but you loose all DE integration. I'm not sure upstreams would take a fallback solution and coming up with a standard which allows for
the required integrations seems like it would be difficult.
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