On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Robert Connolly <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any way to configure an ACPI event, such as closing the lid of a > laptop, to run a script, like 'apm -C' and screensaver? > > apm(8) and sensorsd(8) don't seem to do anything like this.
acpibtn(4) doesn't provide a sensor for the lid status, so there's no generic support for arbitrary actions on lid close. The machdep.lidsuspend sysctl(8) can be set to enable automatic suspend-on-lid-close, which should work on most ACPI systems. If your box attaches the aps(4) device, it should provide a lid sensor there which you can monitor from userspace, but that's thinkpad-only. Philip Guenther
