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Re: /svn/athena r25539 -
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Fri Jun 1 00:32:09 2012
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:32:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: source-commits@MIT.EDU
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On Thu, 31 May 2012, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
> On May 31, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Jonathan D Reed wrote:
>>
>>> Author: jdreed
>>> Date: 2012-05-30 23:04:04 -0400 (Wed, 30 May 2012)
>>> New Revision: 25539
>>>
>>> Modified:
>>> trunk/debathena/config/lightdm-config/debian/changelog
>>> trunk/debathena/config/lightdm-config/debian/debathena-lightdm-greeter
>>> trunk/debathena/config/lightdm-config/debian/debathena-lightdm-greeter.ui
>>> Log:
>>> In lightdm-config:
>>> * Scale the background, since most displays are not 2560x1600
>>> * Bump the scaling factor on the owl, the previous values were when we
>>> were in an additional window and could obscure the greeter
>>> * Disallow logins when we're taking an update
>>
>> Does changing the current "page" really keep the user from doing anything/switching to page 0?
>> I would worry a little bit about missed notifications, but we can probably run with this and see if it breaks.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by missed notifications? I don't think this
> is any less fragile than debathena-nologin-monitor was. My
Basically, I don't fully trust edge-signalled interrupts for these things
and would have more confidence in level-triggered interrupts.
But, you are correct that debathena-nologin-monitor was equally fragile.
> understanding is yes, with the notebook tabs hidden, there's no way for
> the user to switch tabs, unless I'm missing keyboard bindings.
Okay. I don't know about the existence or nonexistence of keyboard
bindings, either, but I was mostly worried about whether a user could use
the mouse to click on a differnet window or something. (I haven't run the
code, yet.)
-Ben
