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venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 996

how to implement lid button pm-suspend for new acpid handler.sh

I have read the wiki and forums what would be the best way to implement lid switch to suspend.
it seems /etc/acpi
has two folders events and actions, so in wiki praktured wrote a new way to implement stuff, please can someone throw some light on the new method?

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DELL XPS 1640 with ATI Mobility Radeon  HD 3670. Arch Linux KDE Minimal Install

bender02

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: how to implement lid button pm-suspend for new acpid handler.sh

Only /etc/acpi/events/ and /etc/acpi/handler.sh belongs to acpid package. What's wrong with just editing handler.sh?

venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 996

Re: how to implement lid button pm-suspend for new acpid handler.sh

See the wiki, I am not sure there was some comment saying pacman will overwrite it in future ..and it is not a good way of implementing etc.
Why do I have actions folder is it because of laptop-tools ?

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DELL XPS 1640 with ATI Mobility Radeon  HD 3670. Arch Linux KDE Minimal Install

bender02

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: how to implement lid button pm-suspend for new acpid handler.sh

I don't know, I have that actions folder as well, but it doesn't belong to any package (but I might have laptop-tools installed at some point).
If you take a look at the PKGBUILD for acpid, you'll see
backup=('etc/acpi/handler.sh' 'etc/acpi/events/anything')
which to me means that pacman will not overwrite these, just create .pacnew files.