[PATCH] RFC: Add XF86XK_Suspend and XF86XK_Hibernate keysym defs.

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Tue Nov 18 02:30:04 PST 2008


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:03:57AM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:36 +1030, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > At the moment, we have the following keysyms defined to put a computer into a
> > sleep state:
> > 
> > XF86XK_Standby    0x1008FF10   /* System into standby mode   */
> > XF86XK_PowerDown  0x1008FF21   /* Deep sleep the system      */
> > XF86XK_Sleep      0x1008FF2F   /* Put system to sleep        */
> > 
> > Proposed change by Richard Hughes:
> >     "The nomenclature I've been trying to make stick
> >     (most projects now use this) for a few years now is:
> > 
> >     standby: high sleep state, nobody uses this any more
> >     hibernate: sleep to disk - slow, but can remove power
> >     suspend: sleep to ram - fast, but can't remove power
> >     hybrid sleep: sleep to both, slow, and can remove power, but quick to
> >     resume if you don't - most users don't use this"
> > 
> > This patch adds XF86XK_Suspend and XF86XK_Hibernate. The behaviour of
> > XF86XK_Sleep can then be configured on a per-session basis.

[...]
> 
> If there are no objections, could this patch please be merged? If the
> patch is pushed, then we can de-insane some of the XOrg->session
> mappings and then the only crazy thing left to patch is the kernel.

already pushed.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/x11proto/commit/?id=1e33337d4dd151da4f0898a86608a1ee67588163

I'll put that and the matching libX11 patch into Fedora tomorrow.

Cheers,
  Peter



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