On 05/10/10 07:09 AM, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > On 10/05/2010 09:02 AM, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: >> On 05/10/10 05:00 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On 5 October 2010 09:55, FlorianFesti <ffesti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Sorry for my may be naive question: Why do we need to know if we are >>>>> docked or not. Isn't there exactly the same situation if the external >>>>> Monitor is directly connected to the laptop? If there is an external >>>>> monitor and the lid is closed don't we want to switch off the display >>>>> regardless whether there is a docking station involved or not? >>>> Well, I guess some people would want the laptop to suspend, but it's a >>>> very good question. Now all it needs is someone willing and able to >>>> write a little patch for me :-) >>> For the Dell docking stations at least there is a power button on the >>> dock and the general way they are used (in that this is the way it >>> works with Windows) is that if the power button on the dock is used >>> and the lid is closed (power button is above the keyboard) it uses the >>> external monitor. I've no idea if its possible to differentiate which >>> botton is used. This is the case in our off with Dell D series and E >>> series Latitude and HP dock capable laptops. >> There's also the case used quite often in my company with Dell docking stations, where >> the lid is open and the user uses both external and internal display in multi-monitor setup. >> Another case, used more often, is two external monitors connected to the dock and closed lid >> in multi-monitor setup. > > The good news is that I'm pretty sure the "dock" is irrelevant (other > than "are we on battery power") in all those cases. The only thing that > matters is which outputs are connected and what happens when the lid is > closed. This seems like a cut-and-dry GPM policy issue. What about the case where "we are on battery power" and a projector or external monitor connected to the VGA port, no dock (with lid either open or closed for single or multi-monitor setup)? Dariusz -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
