[Debian-eeepc-devel] acpi-scripts: THE LID

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Malte Dik, Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 01:52:06AM +0200 |=-
> was thinking about my usecase of closing the netbook, when it is 
> connected to an extern monitor, mouse and keyboard - and that 
> I don't want to hybernate in this situation. xrandr gives me 
> something alon the lines like: "VGA1 disconnected" and I could use 
> this in /etc/acpi/actions/lid.sh to check, if an external monitor is 
> connected and terminate the script at that location so it is not run 
> till the end.
> Now, my bash-scripting skills are so limited, that I only got the script to 
> run completely or not at all, because my checks were all wether always true or 
> always false.
> 
> (...)
> 
> S1 = $(xrandr|grep '^VGA.*disconnected.*')

This won't work, because accessing X resources requires a properly set 
up X authentication. I think you want to run the detect_x function 
(from /usr/share/eeepc-acpi-scripts/functions.sh) before calling 
xrandr.