D Canfield (canfield@xxxxxxxxx) said: > It may not be. I've not yet learned enough about hal to have any clue > if that's something I have the skill to get involved in. I've not yet > reconciled all the lists, but looking through thinkwiki.org, it looks > like some functions can be accessed via tpb, others via ibm_acpi, and > still others through yet another interface that just appeared recently. Exactly. This is the main problem. Every different laptop mfr has people creating X separate interfaces that only apply to that mfr. Which makes a sane userspace impossible. > If there's a clean way to handle this stuff in core, I'm happy to help. > But I just don't know where to find info on how to approach this. All > the info I have on making buttons and special features work is via > thinkwiki. If someone can tell me what info needs given to whom, I'll > do what I can. Well, probably the best thing is to document what you did do, and then we need people to start rolling this stuff up into generic interfaces. > The bit that took me the longest to figure out and that I'm not sure of > a general case solution to, is the docking station issue. When I dock, > I have two monitors (or, I could just plug a second monitor into the > back). What I'm doing now is using "MergedFB" and "MetaModes" to define > two modes: one has a 1400x1050 display on my laptop and a 1280x1024 > display on my monitor, and the second is a virtual/panning > 1400x1050+1280x1024 non-rectangular desktop for when my monitor isn't > connected. I then define one of the extra keys to run "xvidtune -next". > This is the simplest method I could come up with to replicate the hotkey > resizing that most laptops support under windows. If there any approach > we could take to make this easier for users, or is this too much of a > corner case? First, you need to get X supporting monitor hotplugging/changing. :) (Yes, that's a large step.) Bill -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list