Post #1843053

2023-11-08 23:16 UTC

… 2 of 2. Did you know that what's pictured, in the previous post, can lead to unauthorised disclosure of personal information? Questions and answers: after the poll ends …

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@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2023-11-16 19:08

With KDE Plasma: it's normal for the screen to lock when the computer sleeps. With X11, and a keyboard and trackball as pictured at : a lock will not occur. Anyone who wakes the computer will be able to use the desktop environment. From (2015-11-16): ❝… Plasma 5.5 comes with a Wayland session which does no longer expose this sever issue. … unfixable with X11, …❞ My FreeBSD case was a variation of duplicate bug 334051. Last week's photograph was tagged #cats because at home, with a laptop to the right of my main display, Bill and Pickle (to the left) habitually cause the keyboard to move, slowly, to the right. With the rear of the keyboard raised, on its feet, the top right underside of the keyboard occasionally leans sideways against a button on the side of the trackball device. Defocusing from Plasma: refers to 'grab' in the X Window System core protocol, which I'll not attempt to understand. #FreeBSD #X11 #privacy #security #Wayland #cats #catsofmastodon

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@tkk13909@fosstodon.org 2023-11-09 00:29

@grahamperrin I have no idea and I'm VERY intrigued!

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@tkk13909@fosstodon.org 2023-11-15 23:31

@grahamperrin What's the trick?

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