[gpm] Untangling the sleep hotkey mess

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Jul 26 16:52:42 PDT 2006


On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:41:26PM -0400, Brown, Len wrote:

> The only question I have is how to transition.
> If I replace the acpi_bus_generate_event() calls for
> power/sleep/lid/hotkeys
> and replace them with input_report_key(), will there be something up
> there
> listening for these events when acpid does not get them?

Right now, hal will get those events and transmit them to further 
applications. I don't think there's a drop in acpid replacement yet, but 
gnome-power-manager (for instance) will currently react accordingly.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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