hibernate/sleep function in hoary

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:29:40PM +0100, Simon Santoro wrote:
> | 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.)
> yes, I see the keycode with xev. it's 223. I tryed to map it with the
> keybindings_commands, but this does'nt work either (but this is probably
> a different issue).

I believe you need to specify the keysym, not the keycode there.  If it
does not have a keysym assigned, you can run the following command

  xmodmap -e 'keycode 223 = F20'

(you can add it to ~/.gnomerc) and then use F20 in metacity's
keybindings.

Or perhaps just entering 0xd3 would work?  I'm not sure.

> |>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.
>
> that would be nice :)

Perhaps you should file a bug in bugzilla.ubuntu.com -- say that you
have mapped this key to the Sleep function in keyboard bindings dialog,
but it does not actually do anything.

Marius Gedminas
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