[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#717661: Bug#717661: New suspend functionality causes double-suspend for environments not supporting the inhibit API

[Michael Biebl]

Am 23.07.2013 19:59, schrieb Michael Stapelberg:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:
>> Desktop environments, which want to handle power events themselves, are
>> supposed to use the inhibit API [1], to tell logind which keys they want
>> to handle on their own.
>> KDE 4.10 (in sid) and GNOME 3.8 (currently in experimental) have support
>> for that inhibit API.
>> For other environments, this react to power events themselves, this
>> means that we will get a double-suspend if such an event happens.
> Would it be an acceptable alternative to ship logind.conf with
> HandlePowerKey=ignore, HandleSuspendKey=ignore,
> HandleHibernateKey=ignore and HandleLidSwitch=ignore?

That's a question I've already asked myself

> Or do GNOME and KDE actually use some of these features, just not all of
> them?

TBH, I don't know what happens with KDE 4.10 and GNOME 3.8 if we set
those keys to ignore.

Michael

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