On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 23:01 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>
> I don't understand why you people are taking so much of pain automating a
> lot of stuff using scripts.
> I presume most notebook users would be using GUI on it (Probably KDE).
>
> KDE's klaptopdaemon is excellent in handling all this suspend/resume stuff
> for you. I've been using it for months now without any problem.
I seriously doubt the "Probably KDE" comment! I have a Gnome desktop
myself, and AFAICS the two are roughly equal in popularity :-)
The reason I have a script for suspend / resume is to ensure a couple of
things happen:
1) xscreensaver locks my screen on suspend. For security reasons I
don't want my login session to be resumable if someone steals my laptop
while it is suspended.
2) I want to ensure that 'whereami' runs on resume, so it can
automatically figure out a location and configure everything
appropriately at that point.
3) From time to time there have been issues with suspend / resume and
either alsa or hotplug, and I have found it useful to script around
these issues.
Also, if you got the impression that those scripts are actually run by
hand, you are being naive...
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/etc/acpi/events/lid:
# This is called when the user closes the lid
event=button[ /]lid
action=/etc/acpi/suspend_to_ram.sh
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/etc/acpi/events/powerbtn:
# /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
# This is called when the user presses the power button and calls
# /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh for further processing.
# Optionally you can specify the placeholder %e. It will pass
# through the whole kernel event message to the program you've
# specified.
event=button[ /]power
action=/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh
==================================================
Which is all only mildly modified from the default stuff installed by
the acpid package.
Regards,
Andrew McMillan.
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