> On Oct. 14, 2014, 9:02 a.m., Martin Klapetek wrote: > > Could we possibly get "Suspend" button instead? Suspend stores the session > > state into memory and then restores it without any issues (and we lock > > screen on wakeup anyway); many times I have found my laptop with locked > > screen and I had to unlock, click the suspend button in the panel only to > > get it locked again and suspended. > > Martin Gräßlin wrote: > I expected this question to come :-) - I'm not sure whether it's a valid > use case, at least for laptops. Closing the lid should send it to suspend, > the suspend button should still work (if not, we should fix it). So there are > already quite some decent ways to get the system to suspend when locked. > Especially with lid closing it does what it's supposed to do. > > In fact the functionality should even be available through the Change > Session functionality as that drops you to the login manager where you can > suspend. Sure not as comfortable as directly exposing it. But we don't need > to expose every option which might make sense ;-) > > Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > Although closing the lid apparently reliably suspends the device, even > when locked, my gut makes me not trust it. :/
> Although closing the lid apparently reliably suspends the device, even when > locked, my gut makes me not trust it. :/ At least my notebook(s) have a visible LED indicating it is in sleep mode. - Martin ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120577/#review68345 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Oct. 14, 2014, 7:41 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120577/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Oct. 14, 2014, 7:41 a.m.) > > > Review request for Plasma and Aleix Pol Gonzalez. > > > Repository: plasma-workspace > > > Description > ------- > > Logging out from the locked screen is impossible. Logging out means > interaction with the session due to the session manager. The session > manager asks all applications to quit and applications are allowed to > ask for example saving changes. The session manager stopps the > logout in this case and asks the window manager to focus this window > and the session manager will only continue the logout once the > application resolved the situation. At any time in this process the > user is still able to abort the logout! > > Switching to the application which needs interaction is impossible, > though as the screen is still locked. The result is a seemingly > frozen system as the logout cannot continue and there is no indication > what is going on. > > Of course the lock screen cannot unlock the session for the logout as > that would circumvent the security. If the lock screen would unlock > one would just have to click the button and abort the logout really > fast to have the system unlocked. So this is clearly not an option. > > The result is: we cannot implement this functionality in a working > and secure manner, so it's better to remove it. > > > Diffs > ----- > > lookandfeel/contents/lockscreen/LockScreen.qml > 7d730cf1ebd8241dfe1c00a2bef86ec4a3f0212d > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120577/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > run kscreenlocker_greeter --testing and locked the screen - button is gone. > > > Thanks, > > Martin Gräßlin > >
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