[Mageia-dev] Fwd: Distributor notes about GNOME 3.6.0

Mon Oct 1 10:42:54 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 01/10/12 09:28 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 25/09/12 21:32 did gyre and gimble:
+>> 680689 (gnome-settings-daemon) power: enforcing lid close
+>>
+>> If you are using systemd >= 183, gnome-settings-daemon is now talking
+>> to logind for suspend and lid-close handling. Due to the way the
+>> logind API uses polkit, this can sometimes lead to a polkit
+>> authentication dialog in response to a suspend request - which is
+>> problematic when you just closed the lid. The policy which controls
+>> when this occurs was made a little more forgiving in systemd 188, but
+>> it can still happen.
+>>
+>> With system 191, a new API was introduced that lets us avoid this
+>> problem altogether, and bug 680689 has a patch to make use of this,
+>> but it is too invasive to land for 3.6.0 at this point. If you are
+>> shipping with systemd >= 191, you should consider using this patch.
+> 
+> Now that we have the latest systemd, I will apply the latest version of
+> this patch to cauldron.
+
+Actually, it might be better to wait a little while as the patch seems
+somewhat incomplete...
+
+Lid suspending seems OK, but the Suspend menu seems a little bit less
+than ideal - maybe this is OK, tho'.
+
+
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