Re: KVM and screen savers

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On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:23:17 -0800
Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 03/11/2010 12:47 PM, François Cami wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:15 -0500 (EST)
> > William Henry<whenry@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >
> >> On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue:
> >>
> >> If my cursor is in a KVM instance (RHEL 5) and I leave the machine for a while the Fedora screen saver with lock does not kick in.  That is until I press CTRL-ALT to take focus from the RHEL instance back to my Fedora 12. Then the screen saver kicks in.
> >>
> >> Apart form being a little annoying it is also probably a security issue. If I want the screen saver to kick-in after 5 or 10 min of idle time and require a password it is probably NOT a good idea for the KVM focus to somehow override this setting.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > Could you please open a bug against Fedora 12 at bugzilla.redhat.com?
> > The most likely component is virt-manager judging from your description.
> 
> To be honest, I don't see a disconnect on that.  If the cursor's in a
> KVM window, I'd expect the main screen to remain active as it's being
> used to display the KVM window.  I'd think it'd rather annoying to have
> the main screen (and consequently the KVM window) go into screen saver
> mode while I was working on the VM.

Except that if the host's Xorg is used to display an application like
OpenOffice.org or Firerox, I would still expect it to lock the screen
if there is not keyboard activity. The key is not the displaying of
anything but the inputdev activity.

Likewise, if I am working on the VM through the host, the host will
see keyboard or mouse events and should not enable its screensaver.

I still feel it is a bug :)

François
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