[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#762170: Bug#762170: Does not suspend with external monitor connected anymore

[Per Andersson]

On 2014-09-20 13:11, Michael Meskes wrote:
>> I have checked pm-utils and xfce4-power-manager but those have not
>> changed recently.
> 
> Is xfce4-power-manager running? If so, the problem almost surely does 
> not lie
> in acpisupport.
> 
> acpi-support only handles these events only if no other software that
> is supposed to handle the same is running. One of the checks done is
> this:
> 
>         PMS="/usr/bin/xfce4-power-manager /usr/bin/mate-power-manager
> /usr/lib/dalston/dalston-power-applet"
>         pidof -x $PMS > /dev/null [...]
> 
> I guess this return success on your system meaning the acpi-support 
> script in
> question should immediately exit.

I have of course tried with mixed scenarios where xfce4-power-manager
have not been running also. :-)

This has probably been handled by xfce4-power-manager on my laptop
previously. The bug report is still valid though, since acpi-support
does not suspend with the external monitor connected.


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Per