Hi,

Bart Samwel wrote (17 Feb 2009 19:33:49 GMT) :
> It's a nice suggestion, but this one I can't accept. The problem is
> that acpi-support isn't supposed to do this kind of thing. It simply
> translates the hardware key press into a virtual button, and the
> user's desktop environment (which can basically be *anything* in
> Debian) is supposed to handle the key and respond. So the proper way
> to do this, is to convince somebody in the desktop environments game
> to add a handler for this hotkey, just like there are handlers for
> video brightness buttons, sound and even for things like suspending.

Oh. Since acpi-support already handled locking screen with
xscreensaver, KDE and al, I thought this was the right place to
implement such a behaviour. Anyway, I guess you're the one who
knows better.

bye,
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