heads up about f18+ and lid/power buttons

[Sergio]

On 10/20/2012 01:55 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 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
>

I know the people who are going to take care of this will define the 
approach but nowadays (in Fedora 17) there is acpid that can take care 
of these power related button presses.
It checks if gnome or xfce4 power-manager are running and if so it 
disables itself.

Just reminding.