On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jeng...@inai.de> wrote:
> On Monday 2014-02-24 23:08, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>
>>CHANGES WITH 210:
>>
>> * logind is now a lot more aggressive when suspending the
>> machine due to a closed laptop lid. Instead of acting only
>> on the lid close action it will continuously watch the lid
>> status and act on it. This is useful for laptops where the
>> power button is on the outside of the chassis so that it can
>> be reached without opening the lid (such as the Lenovo
>> Yoga). On those machines logind will now immediately
>> re-suspend the machine if the power button has been
>> accidentally pressed while the laptop was suspended and in a
>> backpack or similar.
>
> Interesting. I have some medium-aged Sony VPCM11M1E which too has a
> power button (more like a *slider*) that could be said to be prone to
> activation; however, the machine will not react to the slider or keypress
> while the lid is closed, which is a good thing.
>
> Am I correct in the assumption that your Yoga machines are not
> as "smart" and thus desired this change? :)
Normal button, just switches the box on. Might be, that this is even a
"feature", that the power button works, so it can be used with the USB
docking stations and the closed lid.
>> Also note that this
>> logic is usually not fully sufficient and Desktop
>> Environments should take a lid switch inhibitor lock when an
>> external display is connected, as systemd will not watch
>> this on its own.
>
> Does logind handle the case of {textconsole environment with
> external display and usbkbd}?
The difference between text and graphic will not be interesting in the
future. All consoles will be "graphic", just don't look like it.
Kay
_______________________________________________
systemd-devel mailing list
systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
