Changing the command executed when pressing Suspend button

[Robert McWilliam]

On 01/01/08 20:02:11, Giuseppe Torelli wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2008 6:31 PM, Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net> wrote:
> > In /etc/acpi
> gt[xarchiver]$ ls /etc/acpi/suspend.d/
<snip> 
> Ehm, can you tell me which one I executed? And also what shall I
> change to have executed "sudo pm-suspend"?

I should point out that my understanding of this is a bit vague and comes from 
playing with it more than anything. As far as I've figured: apcid gets acpi 
events from the hardware, then looks for a matching event in /etc/acpi/events 
and that event file directs what to execute, which is usually one of the 
scripts in /etc/acpi 

As far as I can tell the contents of suspend.d/ are called from prepare.sh, 
which is used in sleep.sh and hibernate.sh, so it isn't actually anything in 
there that you want to change. 

I'm not entirely sure what pm-suspend does but I suspect it replaces the 
existing suspend to RAM or disk procedure. Sleep is suspend to RAM and 
hibernate is suspend to disk so replace the contents of either sleep.sh or 
hibernate.sh with a call to pm-suspend [1]. Alternatively you could probably 
put the call directly in the event file you want to trigger the pm-suspend 
call.

Given that I am not entirely sure of this advice please be careful to keep 
backups of files before changing them so things can be put back if they break 
horribly :)

	Robert


[1] I don't think you'll need the sudo

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