Enabling Compiz by default?

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue Aug 14 20:48:58 UTC 2007


Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:02:16 -0400, Peter Jones wrote
> 
>> And that's still the absolute wrong answer.  The right answer is to
>> lock the keyboard and then turn off the display entirely; when we get
>> input (or a lid open event, etc.), turn it back on, paint it solid
>> and give a password box just like with a screensaver.
> 
> I don't want to sound paranoid or something, but paint it solid before
> turning off the screen. TFT displays can be read without the backlight
> on under the right light.

Well, yes.  Ideally, we'd suspend the video card at that point as well, 
but I don't think we can do that very reliably at this point, and it'd 
require some more X changes as well I suspect.

-- 
   Peter




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