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Re: silence audio on locked screen?

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Richard Hector wrote: 
> However, I'm reluctant to embark on one-off efforts, partly because I don't
> understand enough of the underlying structure, and partly because it only
> solves it for me (if I understood more, maybe I could contribute back, but I
> don't).
> 
> As I say, I consider this to be a security flaw - people can hear something
> of what my computer's doing when I'm not there and it's supposedly locked.
> 
> Do others agree with that?

It *can* be a security issue, but it can also be desired
behavior. I have an old laptop in my living room which has the
sole purpose of being connected to my stereo to play music. I
would be rather upset if it were to pause whenever the
screensaver kicks in.

So I would class this as a desirable configurable element.

> Also, I don't know how much of the screen locking function is shared between
> the many tools that are available for this purpose. Ideally, this problem
> (if it's a problem) should be fixed in all such tools.

There are at least four independent things.

There is the Linux console, which has a configurable blanker.

There is the X11 blanking mechanism, which can be controlled by
xset and can optionally invoke DPMS to turn off a monitor.

There are competing screensaver implementations: Xscreensaver
and lightlocker, gnome-screensaver, mate-screensaver,
ukui-screensaver, and probably others.

> Does it sound reasonable then to submit a bug report to light-locker, with
> the suggestion that the maintainers contact the maintainers of
> similar/related packages as they see fit?


You could do that. They would probably think of this as a
feature request.

-dsr-

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silence audio on locked screen? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2021-09-27 04:30 +0200
  Re: silence audio on locked screen? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-09-27 08:30 +0200
  Re: silence audio on locked screen? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-09-27 12:50 +0200
    Re: silence audio on locked screen? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2021-09-28 10:00 +0200
      Re: silence audio on locked screen? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-09-28 12:40 +0200
        Re: silence audio on locked screen? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2021-09-29 05:50 +0200
          Re: silence audio on locked screen? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-09-29 12:50 +0200
          Re: silence audio on locked screen? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-30 05:40 +0200
            Re: silence audio on locked screen? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-09-30 14:10 +0200
              Re: silence audio on locked screen? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-09-30 16:40 +0200

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