Who handles lidclose at login screen?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 23 19:49:14 UTC 2009


Orion Poplawski (orion at cora.nwra.com) said: 
> >>What is responsible for suspending a laptop when the lid is closed and
> >>it is at the login screen?  Running kdm and the machine does not suspend.
> >
> >In principle, whatever handles it in your session. gnome-power-manager
> >runs as part of the gdm session, so the KDE equivalent should be running
> >under kdm.
> 
> There is no session - I'm at the login screen.

With GDM, the login manager is running as part of a session for
the 'gdm' user, using the normal gnome session tools.

Bill




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