On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:52:54 +0200 muzzle <[email protected]> said: > Ubuntu automagically translate ACPI events into Xkeyboard events, and > produce an x event each time a system button is pressed. If you are > using ubuntu just use xev to determine what is the x key that > corresponds to the power button and bind it to the system dialog. If > you are using a different distribution then I don't know :(
no they aren't. i've never seen this and just tested - an acpi button i have wakes acpid and it gets the press, but x exhibits zero keyboard activity. it's not ubuntu. it may be some gnome components listening to acpid, but it's not ubuntu and x - it's no automagic. :) > Cheers, > > Emme > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Carsten Haitzler<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:00:56 +0200 PaulTT <[email protected]> said: > > > >> is there an 'easy' way to bind the power button to be able to popup a > >> power managment menu like the one in illume/openmoko e17 > >> environment?????? > >> > >> a friend of mine switched recently to e17 and pointed this out to me.... > > > > if it's a key in x - yes. but on laptops/desktops it almost never is. it's > > an acpi button which isnt handled in x in any way (you have to go behind > > its back and talk to acpid which may or may not be there with a unix > > socket, or kernel acpi directly) > > > > -- > > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > > > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
