GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 758956
Do not change settings when the session/seat is not active
Last modified: 2016-01-05 17:29:04 UTC
Currently, g-s-d will happily try to change the brightness of the GDM session — even if I'm logged in into my own session. This has the tendency to trip privilege escalation errors that spam my log, but, in general, if the session is not active then there's little point in trying to react to changes. If we still want to keep inactive sessions in the loop, we should resync the state when the session becomes active once again.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 756539 ***