hibernate/sleep function in hoary

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:03:14AM +0100, Simon Santoro wrote:
> I tryed the suspend to RAM function in Hoary and it worked (by executing
> the /etc/acpi/sleep.sh script), but I can find a way to map my sleep key
> of the laptop to execute that script.

Do you have acpid and acpi-support installed?

What happens when you press your sleep key?  Does an entry appear in
/var/log/acpid?  When I press Fn+F4 on my Thinkpad I see

  received event "ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001004"

/etc/acpi/events/ibm-sleepbtn recognizes this key and tells acpid to run
/etc/acpi/sleep.sh.

If you see an entry in /var/log/acpid, but nothing happens, then you
might need to add a config file in /etc/acpi/events.

What sort of laptop do you have?

> In the "Keyboard Shortcuts" menu
> in gnome I can find a "Sleep" Action, and the sleep key of the Laptop
> maps to 0xdf, but it does nothing.

If you do not get an ACPI event in /var/log/acpid, but see an actual X
keycode (e.g. with xev), then forget about /etc/acpi/events.  However I
am not sure what is the right way to configure sleep in this case.
(I would start up gconf-editor, and edit /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands
and /apps/metacity/global_keybindings to map the Sleep key to the sleep
script, but I am sure this is not the Right Way.)

> Is there another way to execute that
> script when i press the sleep button? What is the correct way to
> configure it?

My understanding is that it should just work out of the box without the
need to configure anything manually.

Marius Gedminas
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