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PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 7:24 pm    Post subject: shortcut to put ibook to sleep? Reply with quote

In OS X, I can hit ctrl-m, hit the down arrow a few times, then hit enter on the go to sleep option.

in linux, I can run snooze on the command line as root, but:

Is there an easy way to just click on something or maybe a hot key to put my ibook to sleep? (without closing the lid)

I see that klaptop can use /usr/sbin/apm to suspend, but it doesn't seem to support pmud.

a setuid root perl script which runs 'snooze' (added to my menu or kicker or even just the mini-commandline history) could work but I was wondering if anybody had come up with something nicer.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes, there is. you can define special keyboard requests in /etc/inittab and assign programs to react. check the inittab man page (look for kbrequest).
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My iBook goes to sleep when i press the Power-button. Have you tried that?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the power button works for me! it can't get any more convenient then that. 8) thanks!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you using pbbuttonsd? The default action for a quick single press of the power button is to go to sleep, as soebbi says. In /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf is where you specify what button to press and a delay before it happens, which is important because holding power button down too long and you know what happens ;)

BTW pbbuttonsd can takeover for pmud.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm still running both pmud and pbbuttonsd. in my /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf file, I found these lines:

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SleepKey      = 116
SleepKeyDelay      = no     ; yes = dangerous, if the power key is used to trigger sleep


I just give the button a firm press but don't hold it down at all.

as a test, I just shut pmud down, and everything seems to work still. now I'm wondering why I was running pmud at all?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 5:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

some pmud observations: without pmud, gtkpbbuttons continues to work on resume.

but, if pmud isn't running, my ibook won't suspend when I close the lid. it will suspend if I push the power button though.

so I guess I will continue to run pmud too.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As far as I can tell, pmud is not running on my iBook, I think you know my hardware by now ;)

I check System Monitor/KSysGaurd (process tree) no pmud process found. Then did:

# /etc/init.d/pmud status
* status: stopped

Look in /etc/power.conf and make sure -k or -K are not specified in PMUD_FLAGS at the bottom after the instructions. Mine is just set to -a (enable apmd compatibility mode).

Then in /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf at the bottom where it says "replace_pmud" I set it to "yes". This needs to be set in order for pbbuttonsd to take over power management for you. And then my iBook sleeps when I close the lib, wakes up when lid opens. Hope this helps.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

zojas wrote:
now I'm wondering why I was running pmud at all?

Basically pmud has better support for events, /etc/pwrctl-local can not only change cpu-frequency scaling, load and unload modules, adjust brightness .. it can also restart pbbuttonsd on wake <wink>

pbbuttonsd, has 'Script_ProfChanged=' but it's simply not as flexable.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My experiment with running just pbbuttonsd didn't work out too well. half the time it won't suspend when I close the lid, so I plan to go back to running both pmud & pbbuttonsd
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi I hope someone can help me. I have a new G4 iBook and pbbuttonsd running. The iBook goes to sleep after a certain time, it also goes sleep when I close the lid. But I can't get ANY keys working. I got all keycodes with showkey, and they're right in pbbuttonsd.conf, but they just don't work. I'm really stuck. Is there anything in the kernel that I might have forgotten?

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