No suspend when idle for lightdm greeter

[rvaliant]

No option to set suspend when idle for greeter. In a lab setting, power needs to be conserved when users are not logged in to machines.

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[Cédric Bellegarde (gnumdk)]

Yes it's really needed... Using sleepd now but it's deprecated.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Robert Valiant (robert-valiant)]

Two years on? Thanks, Janitor.

Sheesh.

[Ryan Tandy (rtandy)]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Robert Valiant <email address hidden> wrote:
> Two years on? Thanks, Janitor.

I guess I caused that. Didn't notice no one else had marked themselves
as affected yet. Too funny. I guess it's too much to hope that a
Confirmed bug will be taken more seriously than a New one...

[Robert Valiant (robert-valiant)]

>I guess I caused that. Didn't notice no one else had marked themselves
>as affected yet. Too funny. I guess it's too much to hope that a
>Confirmed bug will be taken more seriously than a New one...

It's quite funny. Something happened to Ubuntu around the time I submitted this bug. Stuff that always just worked just stopped.

Oh, well - give it another couple of years, who knows?

;)

[Ryan Tandy (rtandy)]

I applied the attached changes to unity-greeter, thinking I'd take advantage of logind's IdleAction. However, it's not really reliable, because lightdm leaks sessions in some situations (e.g. bug 1322275), and the system idle hint never gets set because those inactive sessions are not marked idle.

That said, it'd be a step forward if unity-greeter would set the session idle hint.

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