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Re: Launching Evolution when AC power cable is plugged in



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Tixy <debianuser@tixy.myzen.co.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 17:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>> Everytime I plug in my AC power cable, Evolution is launched. I think
>> that it is boring, and it should be avoided!
>> 
>> Any idea?
>
> If you're running Gnome, try changing the keyboard shortcut for "Launch
> e-mail client" in System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
Thanks. It worked. I did not know that such an ACPI event could be
detected as a potential shortcut.

> Now as to why plugging in power might generate an event would match the
> current shortcut key... Some mismatch between versions of things on the
> system, like the eeepc-acpi-scripts, or X, or the Gnome desktop
> version?
Maybe. Shortcuts are weird-named (as they are in hexadecimal, which is
not current, isn't it?) in the shortcut window.

> Are you running a stock Debian distro, or have you added bits from the
> various Debian and Ubuntu EEEPC projects?
I installed Debian image from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/. I
added "Laptop" extensions, but my EEE works quite well. I was
surprised as it works clearly better than my other laptops!

Thanks for your help. It was trivial!

- -- 
Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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