[systemd-devel] diverting HandlePowerKey

[Robin Becker]

Hi,

I liked the idea of systemd when I first saw it, but after doing a few 
conversions I have some small issues. I run arch linux with slim & openbox and 
that seems to be fully supported so far as I can tell.

However, on my netbooks I like to use the power button to launch oblogout which 
brings up a bunch of buttons that allow me to logout/suspend/restart/halt etc 
etc. I can of course continue to use acpid to handle the power button, but that 
seems opposed to the spirit of systemd.

Is there a way to divert HandlePowerKey to a script of my choosing?  I could 
imagine that an option starting with a / character could be used to distinguish 
such a command from one of the standard logind.conf values, but that's obviously 
not implemented. Even if it was does systemd allow me to configure oblogout 
properly ie check for the conditions no-session, tty-session, any-session? Shell 
scripts might be a bit slower at boot, but they allow for possibilities that 
were not thought of at design time.

Of course I would also like to treat the lid switch in a different way to what 
systemd proposes, surely it's obvious that some might like to hibernate or power 
off rather than suspend if the lid is closed?
-- 
Robin Becker