On 12/15/2018 9:47 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > A question about dropping pm-utils: as I replied on -support a few > days ago, my desktops variously have suspend (if a PS/2 keyboard) > and/or hibernate, using xbindkeys to allow an identified key to > trigger the action [ at one time I had a keyboard with a sleep key, > but like most modern hardware, that broke, so now I use F12 for sleep > and/or F11 for hibernate ], with sudo and pm-utils. That works with > icewm and fluxbox, and also with xfce the last time I tested that. > What will I be able to use in the absence of pm-utils ? The new interaction would be WM->dbus->upowerd->dbus->logind. All communication happens across dbus, which is exactly what it was designed for. :-)
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