Quoting Tim Connors ([email protected]):

> On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Rick Moen wrote:

[...]
> > And all of them want to convince you that all the others are essential
> > because they're all part of the Freedesktop.org stack.  But they won't
> > hurt you if you don't believe in them.
> 
> Won't hurt?  Getting a laptop to do any action upon lid close used to be
> so easy - pop a script in /etc/acpi somewhere.  Power removed and want to
> spin the HD down more aggressively?  Trivial!
> 
> But then some idiots came along, who though gnome was the entire world,
> and now it's impossible to not get it to stomp on your feet when you want
> to tell suspend-on-lid-close to fsck right off to where it belongs.

Tim -- 

It's possible that my sense of humour might be a bit dry.
(Cue the tumbleweeds.)

-- 
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Rick Moen                                    I have an error-correcting modem."
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