On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 07:07:21PM +0000, Andrea Crotti wrote: > The strange thing is that if I am in a gnome-session closing the lid or > calling suspend from the gnome menu everything works. > > But if I fire up awesome only then closing the lid doesn't work anymore. > > So the question is, what is gnome magically firing up that other window > managers don't? Among other things, `gnome-settings-daemon` (which manages power settings in GNOME 3). There is nothing magic about it; just typical XDG autostart items, which are listed in /etc/xdg/autostart/ + ~/.config/autostart/ for any XDG-compliant session manager. (Pay attention to "AutostartCondition" in the files when browsing.) -- Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx>
