[PATCH] RFC: Add XF86XK_Suspend and XF86XK_Hibernate keysym defs.
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon Oct 27 08:56:13 PDT 2008
I thought that since we were X.Org, not XFree86, we were going to stop
defining new keysyms with XF86 and stop using the vendor space, since
we can just define them in the standard space, as the X Standards Body.
-alan-
Peter Hutterer wrote:
> At the moment, we have the following keysyms defined to put a computer into a
> sleep state:
>
> XF86XK_Standby 0x1008FF10 /* System into standby mode */
> XF86XK_PowerDown 0x1008FF21 /* Deep sleep the system */
> XF86XK_Sleep 0x1008FF2F /* Put system to sleep */
>
> Proposed change by Richard Hughes:
> "The nomenclature I've been trying to make stick
> (most projects now use this) for a few years now is:
>
> standby: high sleep state, nobody uses this any more
> hibernate: sleep to disk - slow, but can remove power
> suspend: sleep to ram - fast, but can't remove power
> hybrid sleep: sleep to both, slow, and can remove power, but quick to
> resume if you don't - most users don't use this"
>
> This patch adds XF86XK_Suspend and XF86XK_Hibernate. The behaviour of
> XF86XK_Sleep can then be configured on a per-session basis.
> ---
> XF86keysym.h | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/XF86keysym.h b/XF86keysym.h
> index 2a39f4e..88cef67 100644
> --- a/XF86keysym.h
> +++ b/XF86keysym.h
> @@ -206,6 +206,9 @@
> #define XF86XK_Yellow 0x1008FFA5 /* Yellow button */
> #define XF86XK_Blue 0x1008FFA6 /* Blue button */
>
> +#define XF86XK_Suspend 0x1009FFA7 /* Sleep to RAM ` */
> +#define XF86XK_Hibernate 0x1009FFA8 /* Sleep to disk */
> +
> /* Keys for special action keys (hot keys) */
> /* Virtual terminals on some operating systems */
> #define XF86XK_Switch_VT_1 0x1008FE01
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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