On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 19:27 +0000, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> I am looking for a method by which I can determine within a shell script >> whether my laptop is docked or not. Google provided some answers for Linux >> and Windows users, but the several ways I tried did not work out. >> >> One Windows solution * provided a VB script that accessed a registry >> variable ‡, >> but my registry value remains the same whether or not I'm docked. >> >> The Linux solutions required either a file I don't have (/var/run/stab) or a >> tool >> that I don't have and couldn't find in a Cygwin search (acpid or lsusb). >
If you cat the path to the registry key it doesn't show anything but if you hexdump it there is a '1' (in my case, 2 out of 2 systems) stored as a DWORD I suppose. I think that value is wrong for at least one of those (a docked laptop or a VM in a PC). I got the impression the feature is not 100% solid. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
