Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #314547
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 314547

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

I just had a think about this, and if this really is just caused by HAL relaying a signal from the same /dev/input/eventX device that the X server already grabbed, then perhaps a slightly longer-term solution would be a hal-info rule to stop hald-addon-input from monitoring evdev devices (or any device with a 'input.x11_driver' property, if possible), which we know will be grabbed by Xorg anyway? The reason is that this problem could easily affect other hotkeys, eg brightness.

As an example, on my desktop the power button isn't grabbed by Xorg, and has no input.x11_driver property in HAL so I want HAL to relay signals from this device (which it does). But I don't want HAL to relay signals from any hotkeys on my keyboard, which have a input.x11_driver property.

What do you think? Could you think of any issues with doing something like that?