[ltp] gnome-screensaver and locking using fn-f2

[Grant Williamson]

I am looking at ubuntu, they use acpi_fakekey to send keycodes to X for 
various events.
A reasonable description on how this works can be found here - 
http://leufke.info/linux/asus/
I know ubuntu works fine, but I am trying to use this same technique on 
rhel5.
i.e.
./acpi_fakekey 150
Will send me to my firefox homepage. However ./acpi_fakekey 152 does not 
lock my screen.

Even using the same keymaps as ubuntu, it makes little difference, what 
else did ubuntu do to make these combinations work?

dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de wrote:
> Hi Grant,
> I made the following structure
>
>     echo x60 lock_screen
>     APPLICATION="/opt/kde3/bin/kdesktop_lock"
>     [ -f ${APPLICATION} ] || exit 0
>     USER=`/usr/bin/who -u | /bin/awk '{if(match($2, ":0")){print $1}}'`
>     sudo -u ${USER} /bin/bash -l -c "export DISPLAY=:0.0; ${APPLICATION}
> --forcelock &"
>
> work for me on kde. Would you kindle test that on gnome, changing
> APPLICATION and parameter (--forcelock) accordingly?
> If that would work I could adapt my patch in such a way that it can work
> for both gnome and kde.
> Thank you,
> take care
>
>
>
> Dieter
>
> -----Original Message-----
>   
>> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:18:30 +0200
>> Subject: Re: [ltp] gnome-screensaver and locking using fn-f2
>> From: Grant Williamson 
>> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>>     
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>   
>> That does not seem to work either, xscreensaver would, even if I set
>>     
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