On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:37:00 -0800 Curtis Shimamoto <sugar.and.scruffy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/15/12 at 11:18am, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > > > > Forgot to mention in original post - it seems well understood that > > the window managers may or may not play nicely with systemd - as to > > who will do power management. > > > > If a user is not logged in - it is still nice to have systemd > > sleep system on lid close for example - and for this reason the > > window managers are given the ability to "inhibit" systemd when they > > are claiming to do the power management. And when they are not, then > > systemd does not get the "inhibit". [1] > > > > Several window managers, KDE among them are supposed to "play > > nice" with systemd in this regard. > > > > So, one suggestion some have is not to use KDE at all for this - > > and rely solely on systemd - it is of course less configurable. I > > have not yet tried this approach. This can be done via the same > > login.conf. > > > > It's not a huge deal, as I just press power button to wake it up > > again, but curious what others have found. > > > > gene > > > > [1] I'd rather have a positive than a triple negative > > LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=no > > might be easier to read as > > LidSwitchInhibitIsActive=yes > > > > > > > > Personally I just use xautolock, so I don't have to deal with these > competing systemd. I just use the native systemd (actually in its > default form), and it works well. > > I was not aware that you were working towards teh goal of having > systemd actually handle the stuff, as other users typically wanted > their DE to handle the power management, and have systemd do > nothing. This is why I directed you to the man page, in hopes that > you would find the HandleLidSwitch= setting. > > As far as doing it the way you want, I have heard (though I don't use > KDE so I have no personal experience) that it's power management does > not play nicely with this system. I am not sure what power management > setups do play nicely, but every KDE user that I have come across all > ended up just setting HandleLidSwitch=ignore and being done with it. > > If you can get your proposed setup working, I would love to hear about > it. I do not use said systems, but I still welcome knowledge. > > Maybe a DE user can weigh in here. Best of luck. > > Regards, Hi . Well thou not using a laptop i am using systemd and the latest kde 4.9.3 . I use the sleep button on the keyboard (logotech internet navigator usb) it all works perfectly apart from a complaint about shutting down 3 of the 4 CPU cores prior to full shutdown Reboot is almost instant working after approximately 3 seconds Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.6.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 5 11:57:22 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
