Bug 131703

Summary: wish: volume control from screensaver
Product: [Unmaintained] kscreensaver Reporter: Chani <chanika>
Component: generalAssignee: kscreensaver bugs tracking <kscreensaver-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Chani 2006-08-02 05:22:06 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.3)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

hypothetical scenario:
I fall asleep in the evening listening to music from my laptop. its battery gets low, so it hibernates. in the morning I grab it and rush off to school. as the lecture is starting, I open my laptop to take notes... it picks up where it left off: playing music. I scramble to enter my long, secure password correctly and shut off the music before the teacher kills me, and everyone else laughs.

this would be a lot less painful if the screensaver had a way to mute the sound card easily - either a button on the password dialog, or a keyboard shortcut. :)
I'm sure other people could think of a million cool things to do from the screensaver. but this one seems like it'd be the most useful.
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2007-05-18 22:19:04 UTC 
depending on how you see it it is either a dupe of bug #104353 or bug #114844 - i tend to the former.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104353 ***