On 27 February 2009 г. 21:33:25 Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> kdeutils3 provides some components for laptop battery monitoring,
> suspending, etc. that are accessible from the KDE control panel.
> The OpenBSD support for this is contained in
> x11/kde/utils3/patches/patch-klaptopdaemon_portable_cpp
>
> As far as I can tell, this doesn't work at all now, because special
> privileges are needed to write to /dev/apmctl.
Not a special, just write permission.
> And of course it
> requires that you don't run apmd.
It works fine with apmd(8) here.
> This really needs to be rewritten so that instead of opening
> /dev/apmctl directly, it talks to apmd. Somebody who uses KDE might
> want to look into this.
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Best wishes,
Vadim Zhukov
