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Bug 562354 - GNOME Screensaver should allow media keys into a locked session.
GNOME Screensaver should allow media keys into a locked session.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 422390
Product: gnome-screensaver
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-screensaver maintainers
gnome-screensaver maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-11-26 16:58 UTC by Richard Laager
Modified: 2008-12-12 13:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Richard Laager 2008-11-26 16:58:26 UTC 
As discussed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/152851

I'd like to see GNOME Screensaver pass the media keys into a locked session. This would allow one to, for example, control a music player with a remote (a remote causes the hardware to generate keyboard presses) when the machine is locked. It would also allow someone to come by and stop the music on a machine they didn't control.

If there are security concerns, make this an option that's off by default. Another suggestion might be to tell the application (now that GNOME is doing DBus signals for media keys) if the keypress came through a locked session, so that the application could honor requests to change/pause/stop the media, but not start it up.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2008-12-12 13:07:03 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 422390 ***