Re: silence audio on locked screen?

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: silence audio on locked screen?
Date	2021-09-30 05:40 +0200
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On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:48:11 (+1300), Richard Hector wrote:

> 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?

No (ie I concur with Dan).

> 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.
> 
> 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?

It might be worth reading around dbus: there may be hooks for running
scripts whenever locking changes the state, however caused. This would
probably only cover X11, not console blanking or monitors' green
behaviour. And for vlock (deliberate locking), a script to mute/restore.

Cheers,
David.

Thread

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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