Am Montag, 25. August 2003 17:54 schrieb Dmitry Suzdalev: > On Monday 25 August 2003 13:39, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Monday 25 August 2003 18:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does this mean that the OS can intercept you pushing the "power off" > > > button and do something? > > > > > > - Like booting to another OS on the same computer? > > > - Like doing a controlled shutdown instead of just letting the computer > > > turn off the power? > > > - Like even refusing to power off? > > > > Usually the button is configurable in BIOS so that it either powers off > > straight away or powers off after the button is held for 4 seconds, the > > latter being the default. When the button is depressed an ACPI event is > > generated, which the OS intercepts and reacts to accordingly. With acpid, > > your first two suggestions above are both possible - the third could only > > be the result of a buggy motherboard (or motherboard producer ;-). > > And will this work if I'm running kde? I mean will it shutdown properly > (i.e. store session, close all open windows etc)? Is acpid configurable for > that kind of action?
Yes and yes ;-) acpid calls /etc/acpi/default.sh, where you can do everything you want to.Kde is controlable by dcop, for example: /usr/kde/3.1/bin/dcop kdesktop KDesktopIface logout gives the logout-dialog. > TIA, > Dmitry. > > P.S. Will acpid work with 2.4.20 vanilla sources? I'm not sure, but it works perfectly with vanilla 2.4.21 on my machine. HTH Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
