Who handles lidclose at login screen?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Nov 23 20:30:08 UTC 2009


Orion Poplawski wrote:

> On 11/23/2009 12:43 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:26:41PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>> 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.

Right, kdm doesn't support powersaving on login screen (yet).

-- Rex





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