ConsoleKit 0.2.3

[William Jon McCann]

On 9/19/07, Doug Goldstein <cardoe at gentoo.org> wrote:
> William Jon McCann wrote:
> > On 9/19/07, Doug Goldstein <cardoe at gentoo.org> wrote:
...
> >> 2) x11-display-device seems to be wrong a bunch of the time on both
> >> machines I've tested it on. i.e. right now X is running on tty7
> >>
> >
> > This is collected from the helper LIBEXEC/ck-get-x11-display-device.
> > So check the output of that.  And compare that to the tty value
> > reported by, say, ps: ps -eaf |grep Xorg.  Do they differ?
> >
> Nope. Don't differ. Odd. It says tty8 but Ctrl-Alt-F8 and I have nothing
> there.. Ctrl-Alt-F7 and there's my X.

Interesting.  We should probably try to understand what is going on there...

> >
> >> 3) idle-since-hint never appears to be set for X sessions. Now I know in
> >> this case it's not possible because I'm currently active on X to send
> >> this e-mail. But I've switched to console and let it sit there for 20
> >> min while I went to do something else and then checked ck-list-sessions
> >> and there was no idle-since-hint
> >>
> >
> > There must be a ConsoleKit aware idle monitor agent running in the
> > graphical session for this to work.  gnome-screensaver is one that
> > will work.  Text mode sessions are monitored directly by ConsoleKit..
> >
> hrm. I'm running GNOME 2.18 on that machine with gnome-screensaver and
> it didn't do it. I'll try it on my GNOME 2.19/2.20 machine and see if I
> get different results. Could be something new-ish/er in gnome-screensaver?

2.18 should work.  Try locking the screen explicitly and check the
output of ck-list-sessions.

> > Thanks for testing.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> No problem. Works great so far. Keep up the good work. As a side note,
> were you going to register ConsoleKit as a top level Freedesktop
> project? or just create some webspace under the HAL project?

I created http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit and
requested a bugzilla component [1].  Is there something else to do?
As long as nobody complains I think it is ok to continue to squat on
the HAL list.  Any objections?

Thanks,
Jon

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12306