On 10/05/2010 11:53 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 09:35 +0100, 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. > > Maybe just 'lid closed and external monitor connected' would be close > enough? Is there a use case where you'd want to have an external monitor > connected and the internal system's lid closed, but still have the > internal system's display turned on? FYI, doing so could damage the laptop. Nathaniel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
