heads up about f18+ and lid/power buttons

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Sat Oct 20 16:55:14 UTC 2012


On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:29:52 +0200
Raphael Groner <raphgro at web.de> wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
> 
> thanks for giving the hint for the workaround to inhibit systemd
> trying to take over the lid handling. This is not senseful for Xfce
> systems, right!

Well, it depends. If you have xfce4-power-manager running you probibly
want it to handle them. If you don't it could be nice to have something
handling them. 

> I am on a freshly updated Manjaro system (ArchLinux) here. So this
> issue has nothing to do with Fedora in particular and should be
> handled upstream somewhere, either systemd (looks for other power
> managers already active in the system, maybe…) or desktop handlers
> should instruct systemd as the backend what to do. That design needs
> clearly rethinking, IMHO.
> 
> I've added a comment to the upstream bug.

Well, the changes need to be made in xfce4-power-manager (and anything
else that wants to handle power management instead of systemd). 

> -R.

kevin
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