[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#598097: Make detect_x_display go away to solve this

[Ben Armstrong]

After discussing this with a member of the X team, they advise this is
simply a bad idea (to try to talk to X from acpi scripts).  I've heard
this advice before and given the difficulty we've had, I have to wonder
if it isn't time to finally take that seriously.  After all, this key
sends an XF86Display event, so the WM should bind that to do whatever
the user wants.  I think in GNOME and KDE, there should be some agent
that already handles this.  For non-gnome/kde, something could be
cobbled together with xrandr the way we do already, only not running as
root.

I'm going to see what other keys (if any) rely on detect_x_display, and
see if we can apply the same approach.

Ben