Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 19:07 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:19:04AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 09:59 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > > I think the fun will come from systems that don't properly report their lid 
> > > status.  I think this is one of the complaints from the X developers.
> > 
> > *shrug* those are separate bugs we can fix once we make the actual
> > behaviour correct.
> 
> Bugs where we turn off people's displays when they're trying to use them 
> are things that we should address at the start of the development 
> process, not the end.

don't we already have default behaviours based on the lid switch,
anyway? So why don't we have this problem with those? IIRC, we default
to suspending the system when the lid is closed on battery power - so
are we suspending people's systems at random, if those systems have
lying lid switches?
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