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

Damyan Ivanov dmn at debian.org
Sat Nov 13 14:05:30 UTC 2010


-=| Ben Armstrong, Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 08:20:15AM -0400 |=-
> 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.

Before going there, maybe we could try using getXconsole from 
/usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs ? There are other useful scripts 
in that directory, for example screenblank.
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