On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 15:18 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On 8/20/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I don't suspend when walking away because I don't want my > wireless to > drop, I don't want to have to re-login to say t-mobile > hot-spot, > > Yeah, sigh...these wifi browser prompts completely destroy the user > experience for so many applications. My personal favorite is starting > Firefox, clicking "Resume session" and getting 15 redirected login > tabs. > > Long term I hope we can figure out some way to make that suck less. I > don't have any good ideas right now about how to detect the situation > initially. Devicescape-like for GNOME? http://www.devicescape.com > That said though, maybe if we only suspend for say the time it takes > to go to the bathroom (~2 minutes) it might not toss you back at that > prompt. I'm not sure how that works - if it authorizes your MAC > address for X minutes or whether it's "DHCP request implies prompt". > In the latter case we might be able to fix NetworkManager to save its > DHCP lease if it's within the lease time still and not do another > request on unsuspend if it's the same network. It still needs the WEP key (unset on suspend) to resume. And gnome-screensaver should probably unlock the keyring if it can. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
