Till Maas wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 04:18:06PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> On Thu, 15.07.10 08:58, Till Maas (opensource@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 03:30:41AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>> >>> And why should acpid go away? What is there that can be used instead? >> Used for what exactly? > > To react on ACPI events, e.g. when the lid of a notebook is opened[0] > or when the notebook is removed from a docking station. > >> upowerd handles this now. > > It looks like it is as bad documented as hal. At least the manpages on > freedesktop.org[1] did not provide any information about what one can do > with it. Acpid has a very good manpage that shows how one can easily > add scripts that react to any ACPI event. I have a use case which does not involve power management. Some keys on my Thinkpad generate ACPI events which I can assign to scripts run by acpid. For example the "ThinkVantage" button is mapped to 'sync' (acpid is one of the things which manages to work even on a half-crashed system), then I mapped some Fn-F[1-12] combinations to other system wide functions. One is mapped to kill -STOP/-CONT all running firefox processes, which I use to save battery while reading webpages, excluding the instants when I scroll or change tab. Another one helps with the display brightness control (detect brightness+ key -> run command to increase brightness). Another one is used to activate the screensaver/screenlock when walking away from the machine; maybe this one could have been done in a session context, but Fn-F1 is really well positioned to be reached by my fingers. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
