[Mageia-dev] What the hell is wrong with MGA2s suspend/sleep/hibernate?

Tue Nov 20 15:05:41 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 20/11/12 12:47 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 11/20/2012 07:32 AM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
+>> Note: This is Not the automatic sleep/hibernation after X min of
+>> inactivity. This is hibernation by accidently pressing the «SLEEP» key
+>> on a keyboard. 
+> Ah, didn't realize that you wanted to disable the Sleep capability even
+> when explicitly requested.  Remap the key ?
+
+Not sure if remapping the key would work.
+
+Ultimately things are slowly moving over the systemd where the
+systemd-inhibit command is your friend.
+
+Ultimately, systemd will handle the sleep key in MGA3 (I know not the
+subject of this mail, but this is cauldron so saying for the sake of
+history). It will be up to the DE's to inhibit this handling if they
+want to do it themselves (via a very simple dbus protocol)
+
+This way we can handle things at the low level before anyone has logged
+in (e.g. by handling lid switch even when you're at a tty) and then we
+can easily allow the DE to inhibit this handling if required (e.g. if
+there is a second monitor plugged in, the DE may want to inhibit
+lid-switch handling to allow you to close your lappy.
+
+
+Anyway with this in mind, there is an easy way to inhibit suspend key
+handling at the systemd level, but if a DE has already inhibited this
+and then implements it's own handling you'll need  a way to disable that
+too.
+
+So all in all I think even with an improved base layer, this will still
+be a slightly tricky issue to solve.
+
+I'd just go for the superglue fix instead :p
+
+Col
+
+
+
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