[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#701206: Bug#701206: acpid: Mic mute button on Thinkpad X230 is not recognized

[Michael Meskes]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 04:19:30PM +0200, Marek Elias wrote:
> So you are telling me that acpid is now obsolete and things should be
> done in some other way? I don't use KDE nor GNOME. I use fluxbox and I

No, not really, you just don't need it anymore when running stuff like GNOME or
KDE which have their own means of handling these events. I have no idea about
fluxbox though.

> used to configure some of my keys through acpid. And I like it, when the
> keys work in console as well as in X.

Right, and for that you still need acpid.

> Does acpid has something to do with forwarding events to X? Or X should
> get the events itself?

X does not need acpid.

> When I will have a scripts for this button, I should probably send them
> to package acpi-support, am I right?

Right.

Michael
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