On date Saturday 2006-12-09 01:42:13 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 19:33 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > > Hi Ritesh, and thanks for your reply. > > > > On date Friday 2006-12-08 22:22:35 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 15:43 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I would like like to setup acpid to automatically launch the > > > > gnome-session-save program when the power button is pressed (and gnome > > > > is running). > > there were talks with gnome-power-manager on this. not too sure, where > or what it was about. > gnome-power-manager is very fine, and it supports out of the box the power button event, that triggers the very gnome-session-save --kill command. The only problem is that it isn't as configurable as a script (I can't actually change the command executed for each event). > try using dbus system wide service. > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-power-manager/docs/dbus-interface.html > > python scripts are your friend. > I should actually send a message to the gnome-session process using D-bus, and I actually don't know very well neither the D-bus communication model, neither python programming :-(... In each case, while the D-bus/python scripting seems to be the "right" solution (or maybe even some dbus-send command could be sufficient?) I've worked around the following fix, maybe a little too "overkilling", that manages either the case when gnome-power-manager is not installed. 1) added in the startup programs list (gnome-session-properties) the command: echo $SESSION_MANAGER > ~/tmp/gnome-session-manager 2) wrote this script and placed it in /usr/local/sbin/kill-gnome-session #! /bin/bash set -e gnome_session_user=$(ps -e -o command,user | awk '/gnome-session/ { print $2 }') SESSION_MANAGER=$(cat /home/$gnome_session_user/tmp/gnome-session-manager) export SESSION_MANAGER gnome-session-save --gui --kill 3) modified the /etc/acpi/power-button script in this way: #! /bin/bash # Initiates a shutdown when the power putton is pressed. if ps -e -o command | grep -q '[k]desktop'; then kdesktop="on" fi if ps -e o command | grep -q '[g]nome-session'; then gnome_session="on" fi if ps -e o command | grep -q '[g]nome-power-manager'; then gnome_power_manager="on" fi if [ "$kdesktop" ] && [ -f /usr/bin/dcop ]; then dcop --all-sessions --all-users ksmserver ksmserver logout 0 2 0 && exit 0 elif [ "$gnome_session" ]; then if [ "$gnome_power_manager" ]; then # don't do nothing: gnome-manager knows what to do true elif [ -f /usr/bin/gnome-session-save ]; then kill-gnome-session fi else /sbin/shutdown -h now "Power button pressed" fi Cheers -- Stefano Sabatini Linux user number 337176 (see http://li.count.org) _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
