[opensuse-factory] [13.1 RC1] XFCE bad policy when battery is low.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Testing the "Xfce Power manager", on a laptop. Select "On battery" on the left panel, to choose actions. When the battery power is critical, the drop list contains: "Nothing, Suspend, Shutdown, Ask". However, if you login as root into xfce, you also can "Hibernate". This is wrong. If the battery is _critical_, it can happen that the battery runs out during suspend, so it is normal and valid to choose "hibernation". However, a plain user can not choose that action, and I suspect that this is intentional. :-/ How can I tell XFCE to list "hibernate" as a valid action when I'm a plain user? Why are the security team scared that we hibernate our laptops, but not that we power them off? Because I suspect it is their decission. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlJmgbQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WPYACgi9pOHTLmZ/FeZRbWUJbj/oIc aCAAoIdgx72enzQgu0NmaQOqHTzNFtE1 =gtOX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
* Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> [2013-10-22 15:46]:
Testing the "Xfce Power manager", on a laptop.
Select "On battery" on the left panel, to choose actions. When the battery power is critical, the drop list contains: "Nothing, Suspend, Shutdown, Ask".
However, if you login as root into xfce, you also can "Hibernate".
This is wrong. If the battery is _critical_, it can happen that the battery runs out during suspend, so it is normal and valid to choose "hibernation". However, a plain user can not choose that action, and I suspect that this is intentional. :-/
How can I tell XFCE to list "hibernate" as a valid action when I'm a plain user?
This is a side effect of bug #846914, if an action requires additional authentication (due to the logind problem here) it is not shown at all. Since this is inconsitent with xfce4-session I've just patched xfpm to behave as xfce4-session. Please open a bug and I'll get it into 13.1 later. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R.
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