[ltp] How to catch close lid event?

[Richard Neill]

Daniel Castro wrote:
> 
>     you can catch this event with thinkpad-acpi with the event button/lid.
> 
>     an example for /etc/acpi/event/lid:
>     event=button/lid
>     action=/etc/acpi/action/lid.sh
> 
> thanks. but not sure i understand what i have to do.  create a lid file 
> with that content? sorry i'm not too linux savvy....
> 

I wrote this tutorial for myself a while back, describing how ACPI 
works. My example maps Fn-F3 to flash the thinklight.

http://www.richardneill.org/a22p-mdk11-0.php#acpi

HTH,

Richard