Dear list, I have been trying to use ACPID sleep for my laptop for quite a while and finally have stumbled across a page which deails with my situation (on a laptop Dell Latitude C840). http://winterwolf.co.uk/dellpm As it stands, there is a script there as follows: (further down) #!/bin/bash XUSER=`ps -C startx -o user h` [[ 0$XUSER == 0 ]] && XUSER=none if [[ 0`cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state|cut -c 13-16` == 0open ]] then # Lid has been opened if [[ $XUSER != none ]] then su - $XUSER -c DISPLAY=:0.0 xset dpms force on su - $XUSER -c "/bin/sed -i 's/^dpmsOff:.*$/dpmsOff: 0:30:00/' ~$XUSER/.xscreensaver" su - $XUSER -c "DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -restart" su - $XUSER -c "DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -cycle" fi else # Lid has been closed if [[ $XUSER != none ]] then su - $XUSER -c "/bin/sed -i 's/^dpmsOff:.*$/dpmsOff: 0:00:10/' ~$XUSER/.xscreensaver" su - $XUSER -c "DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -restart" su - $XUSER -c DISPLAY=:0.0 xset dpms force off su - $XUSER -c "DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -lock" fi fi Btw, do I use startx? How do I tell? What I don't understand is where to put this....and how to run it. Also, I don't use xscreensaver, but xlock (and that also not in the laptop, but I can do that). Can I just change that? By the way software suspend does not work on my laptop: it simply starts all over again when it is powered on. Any suggestions, please? Many thanks in advance and best wishes! __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
