Re: [gpm] Running the power manager under another session and while not having any battery to monitor?

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 16:52 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:42:01PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 
> > How do you mean mediate? Surely the at_console thing should "do the
> > right thing" ?
> 
> Yeah, I meant the dbus level rather than the hal level.
> 
> at_console doesn't quite do the right thing in Fedora, in that it'll 
> either let anyone who logged in at the console run things, or 
> alternatively it'll only let the first person who logged in at the 
> console run things (I can't remember which off-hand). Ubuntu's is 
> patched to do the right thing as long as libpam-foreground is used. This 
> probably needs to be brought up on the dbus list.

Did you patch the dbus source? Have you got the patch handy, and I'll
send it their way. Or is libpam-foreground an ubuntu thing?

Thanks, 

Richard.