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By: jmfv
Hello
My computer is an ASUS A3500N laptop, running Debian Sarge Testing, and I'm
trying to implement some missing hotkeys support, such as volume up/down and
the Web Browser, Mail Client, etc.
I've looked into the /usr/share/doc/powersave/contrib files and found very nice
looking examples 'acpi_hotkeys_ASUS_M6842NW' and
'acpi_hotkeys_ASUS_L2400D'. It was fairly easy to implement support for volume
up/down/mute hotkey by putting a script in /usr/lib/powersave/scripts that tests
the hotkey code and runs a command accordingly.
The only thing that is failing now is the Web Browser and Mail Client like keys,
where I have to launch an X application, something like
if [ $hotkey = 00000050 ];
then
run_on_xserver "/usr/bin/thunderbird"
fi
where run_on_xserver is defined as
run_on_xserver() {
get_x_user
su $X_USER -c "DISPLAY=$DISP $1"
}
Unfortunately, the get_x_user always detects that the "x_user" username is
"root",
although I'm logged in KDE as "debian_user". That is why the run_on_xserver
fails. If I change
su $X_USER -c "DISPLAY=$DISP $1"
to
su debian_user -c "DISPLAY=$DISP $1"
the run_on_xserver works. But leaving the hotkey_handler script this way isn't
very elegant, is it? :D
Help appreciated! Thank you!
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