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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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[unsolved] acpid + dbus for hotkeys?

I read recently that gnome-power-manager supports hotkeys using a dbus plugin. Is it possible to use acpid with this plugin, so that I don't have to spend time finding out the codes for my hotkeys? Or does acpid have no way of using dbus?

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2008-06-27 02:18:17)

Gullible Jones

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Re: [unsolved] acpid + dbus for hotkeys?

Okay, it looks like I found my answer... install the hal-info package.

Gullible Jones

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Re: [unsolved] acpid + dbus for hotkeys?

No, this doesn't work. I've got hal running and hal-info installed, and my laptop's keyboard is fully supported; according to dmesg there are no problems. But acpid refuses to acknowledge when I hit the suspend key, even though handler.sh contains the right stuff.

How do I make acpid recognize when I hit the key combination? Is the daemon simply unable to make use of hal, or am I doing something wrong? I'd really prefer not to have to use keytouch or something to get my extra keys working.

(And if acpid cannot use hal - are there alternatives? Can I configure hal to directly invoke pm-suspend when the right keys are pressed?)

Edit: N/M, it looks like acpid must die. I'm going to start a new topic on configuring HAL.

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2008-06-27 02:39:46)