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Bug 358483 - Shouldn't change screen brightness if not the current user
Shouldn't change screen brightness if not the current user
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 348218
Product: gnome-power-manager
Classification: Deprecated
Component: gnome-power-manager
2.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-30 11:53 UTC by Vincent Untz
Modified: 2006-11-26 11:38 UTC
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Description Vincent Untz 2006-09-30 11:53:14 UTC 
Open two GNOME sessions for different users. Both use gnome-power-manager.

After a while, it looks like g-p-m of the user who is not using the computer changes the brightness of the screen (probably the "dim the laptop panel when idle" setting). It shouldn't do it since it's not the g-p-m instance that should control this setting: it should be the g-p-m of the currently active user that controls this.
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2006-10-01 16:35:33 UTC 
I know, this is known broken. When more distros start shipping PolicyKit (and maybe another project that Jon is working on) then this will be fixed properly (i.e. managed), but I'm not sure there is anyway we can bodge this on g-p-m's side. I think ubuntu use check-forground-console or something. That might be worth looking into as a temp fix.
Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2006-11-26 11:38:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 348218 ***