Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Richard Hughes]

On 5 October 2010 09:55, FlorianFesti <ffesti at redhat.com> wrote:
> Sorry for my may be naive question: Why do we need to know if we are
> docked or not. Isn't there exactly the same situation if the external
> Monitor is directly connected to the laptop? If there is an external
> monitor and the lid is closed don't we want to switch off the display
> regardless whether there is a docking station involved or not?

Well, I guess some people would want the laptop to suspend, but it's a
very good question. Now all it needs is someone willing and able to
write a little patch for me :-)

Richard.