i've released a new version of both olpc-kbdshim and powerd. olpc-kbshim supports the XO grab keys, rotates the touchpad action when the screen rotates, and provides user (in)activity status for powerd. with this release olpc-kbdshim is now integrated with HAL in order to allow tracking USB mice and keyboards.
powerd is a more flexible and configurable replacement for ohmd. it's not a "drop-in" replacement, but it's getting close -- there are a few things ohmd provides which are hard for powerd to do in exactly the same way. i'm about to start the review process for getting these both into fedora -- if you've been thinking of trying them, but haven't, i could use the feedback. remember that you'll need to install powerd on a laptop running an OLPC kernel, otherwise suspend and resume won't do anything anyway. olpc-kbdshim should work on the latest rawhide releases. (i hope -- feedback please, i haven't had a chance to try rawhide myself.) powerd disables ohmd when it installs, and reenables it if it's uninstalled. so there's no conflict unless you install ohmd after powerd, which is unlikely. both packages will apply small patches to sugars keyhandler.py, in order to take back control of the rotation and brightness keys. (i've suggested these patches become permanent, somehow, in SL #737.) if you later remove either of my packages, the keyhandler.py patches remain, but are benign. i could go on about features, etc, here, but since i'd be quoting or paraphrasing info that comes with the packages, i'll just refer directly there. olpc-kbdshim is described in its README: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/olpc-kbdshim/tree/README powerd is described by commentary in the core script itself: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/powerd/tree/powerd the git trees for the two packages are here: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/olpc-kbdshim/ http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/powerd RPMs live here: http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/rpms and the initial announcements of powerd is here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-March/023798.html olpc-kbdshim wasn't as well announced, but was described here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-March/023703.html paul =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel