Derek Broughton wrote:
The problem is that there _isn't_ such a thing as "common" events. Mine are probably the same as yours (because we both have Inspirons) but they won't be the same as somebody else's Thinkpad
Really? So Thinkpads don't have closeable lids? :)Granted, each laptop has its own idiosyncracies, but most have lids, power buttons, and many have "sleep" buttons as well. With ACPI, we could have any of these events trigger a transition to a variety of sleep states (standby, software suspend, shutdown, etc).
Now, my *ultimate* goal would be to have a package which knew about the peculiarities of many models of laptop and had pre-configurations for each one. So, for an Inspiron 41xx, you could define an action for the little "Dell" button next to the power button, etc.
So, to recap, I think a good start would be to make some scripts which would support the features found in the vast majority of laptops.
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