Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Orion Poplawski]

On 10/05/2010 09:48 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 10/05/2010 02:35 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> On 5 October 2010 05:30, Orion Poplawski<orion at cora.nwra.com>   wrote:
>>> Are we really stuck with gdm/kdm/lxdm/...dm
>>> implementing it?
>>
>> No, I think what we need to do is to teach GPM how to turn off the
>> internal panel when docked and with the lid closed. The only missing
>> piece is for the kernel to export some kind of sysfs boolean saying
>> "in-dock". From talks with mjg59, detecting a dock is pretty hard.
>>
>> Richard.
>
> By GPM I'm guessing you mean gnome-power-manager?  So each desktop environment
> needs to implement this?  Does gpm run before login so that it is configured
> properly at login time?  Who's needs handle it for KDE, LXDE, XFCE, etc.?
>
>

I still don't feel like there has been adequate discussion on where in 
userspace this needs to be handled.  So far all I've seen is what appears to 
be a GNOME only solution.  I'll CC the KDE list to at least get another 
perspective in here.

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