Re: Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

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On 10/05/2010 02:35 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 5 October 2010 05:30, Orion Poplawski<orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> Are we really stuck with gdm/kdm/lxdm/...dm
>> implementing it?
>
> No, I think what we need to do is to teach GPM how to turn off the
> internal panel when docked and with the lid closed. The only missing
> piece is for the kernel to export some kind of sysfs boolean saying
> "in-dock". From talks with mjg59, detecting a dock is pretty hard.
>
> Richard.

By GPM I'm guessing you mean gnome-power-manager?  So each desktop environment 
needs to implement this?  Does gpm run before login so that it is configured 
properly at login time?  Who's needs handle it for KDE, LXDE, XFCE, etc.?


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