(In reply to Eric Koegel from comment #16) > (In reply to Guido Berhoerster from comment #15) > > (In reply to Eric Koegel from comment #14) > > > Created attachment 5498 [details] > > > Suspend/hibernate upower 0.99 (no logind) > > > > > > Since everyone else is doing the logind piece, I wrote a small patch so > > > xfce4-session will work with upower 0.99 but without logind. > > > > Although I think it would be a good thing not to rely on logind, please do > > not extend this crude and ugly sudo hack that BSD and Solaris users have to > > put up with, but replace xfsm-shutdown-helper with a small DBus service and > > use PolicyKit to authorize access to shutdown/suspend methods. > > xfsm-shutdown-helper should just go away, PolicyKit is nowadays available > > even on the BSDs and Solaris. > > Indeed, I can look into doing that. I didn't know how long it would take to > get a new project accepted by distros, especially something running as root. > In the meantime, extending shutdown-helper will work until I (or someone) > makes a daemon for that.
I don't think that it's big deal, it will not be used by most major Linux distros anyway since they are all systemd-based and there is already precedence with xfpm-backlight-helper which gets executed as root through polkit. Speaking of, could you just execute xfpm-pm-helper through pkexec instead of sudo in the same way it is done with xfpm-backlight-helper? xfpm-pm-helper should probably disabled by default on Linux since distros either carry upower < 0.99 or they have upower >= 0.99 and systemd. Finally it'd be nice to install all of these helpers under $(libexecdir) instead of $(bindir) since they're not meant to be executed directly by the user and clutter $PATH. Thanks in advance. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1178373 Title: Restart spawns a password box To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-session/+bug/1178373/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
