Re: fluxbox and suspend

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Rodrigo Javier Tobar Carrizo <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Bob Hepple wrote:
>
>> Under gnome, it just never faults, comes up every time. I wonder what it
>> might be using to do the job.
>>
>
> It uses the gnome-power-manager utility (the same that displays the AC or
> battery icon on the gnome-applet). If you start that one under fluxbox,
> you'll be able to use your computer's "sleep" button (or similar) to suspend
> it. It has worked without problems for me during the last 2 years.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Rodrigo
>

Interesting - it looks like my suspend button (Fn-F1 FWIW) isn't seen by
gnome-power-manager. In fact, xev(1) returns XF86Sleep - so I put this into
.fluxbox/keys:

XF86Sleep :ExecCommand mysleep

mysleep is just this:

xscreensaver-command -lock
[ -d /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0 ] && sudo pm-suspend --auto-quirks

On the other hand, g-p-m _does_ respond to my power button (which is an ACPI
event as Kevin says) - it hibernates.

/etc/acpi/actions/power.sh on fedora just looks to see if there is a
gnome-power-manager and exits if it find one. (Otherwise it does a shutdown
-h now). Presumably g-p-m then gets the event? How?

So if my lappy doesn't generate ACPI for the suspend key, how do I tell
g-p-m to go suspend? "pm-suspend --auto-quirks" doesn't seem to be enough.

Another interesting experiment - I can tie the power button to 'suspend'
instead of 'hibernate' in g-p-m and it looks like it works. I'll try it out
for a while and see if there is an improvement.




Hmmmmm



Thanks


Bob

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