[bug?] chvt in /etc/acpi/lid.sh

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 22:15 +0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > I noticed that /etc/acpi/lid.sh issues a chvt, I guess to save power by
> > not having X in the foreground. But some laptops (including mine of
> > course) do not receive a signal when the lid is re-opened so I manually
> > have to switch to the X vt.
> > 
> > Is this to be considered a bug?
> 
> I believe one of the main reasons for switching away to the text-display is
> to handle the fact that many of the X drivers do not cope with suspend.
> 
> Yes, file it;  It's a bug in the sense unsuspend is not being detected.
> Presumebly what should happen is to detect the unsuspend has occured (even
> if there's no ACPI event generated by the hardware) and generate it by hand.

Closing the lid does *not* suspend my laptop, it merely locks the screen
(xscreensaver-command -lock)
-- 
Dennis K.
  And that's the way the cookie crumbles!