On Fri, 23.01.15 15:43, b3nmore ([email protected]) wrote: > > Why precisely does your original session inhibit the lid switch? If > > you want to turn off the lid switch then turn it off properly, > > inhibition is not really about turning something fully off. It's about > > temporarily making logind not process it, for example, because you > > want to process it yourself or so. > > > > GNOME for example never inhibits the lid switch, because there's > > really no reason to. Why does your DE inhibit it? > > xfpm (the power manager of xfce) allows to configure how the system > should react to certain power events. In this case you can configure it > to either suspend or hibernate or lock the screen or just switch off the > screen, when the lid is closed. In order to do so, xfpm inhibits the > handle of the lid switch and initiates the configured pm action on its own. > It works as intended with one exception, when one uses a screen locker, > which switches vt's (other lockers are o.k.).
I'd strongly recommend not doing this this way. Inhibitors aren't really for that. Change logind.conf, or so, to make this a system-wide change. But doing this with inhibitors, only does this temproarily. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
