[Goodies-dev] xfpm XF86Suspend key is mapped to hibernate

[Adam Black]

Ali Abdallah wrote:
> Adam Black wrote:
>> Hey Ali,
>
> Hey Adam,
>
>> I think since the recent xorg upgrade in Arch, my sleep key - which I 
>> recall being be mapped to XF86Sleep, is now mapped to XF86Suspend.
>>
>> In terms of xfpm, this means instead of having to configure a sleep 
>> action, I now need to configure a hibernate action.
>>
>> I was wondering whether XF86Sleep and XF86Suspend should resolve to 
>> the same action in xfpm. I'm not whether there is an XF86Hibernate 
>> key which would be more appropriate for hibernating.
> This is a big mess with mapping, see 
> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5230
>
> In principle XF86Suspend should be mapped for suspend, because the 
> declation in XF86keysym.h is like that:
>
> #define XF86XK_Suspend        0x1008FFA7   /* Sleep to 
> RAM              */
> #define XF86XK_Hibernate    0x1008FFA8   /* Sleep to 
> disk               */
>
> however we decided to map this key as hibernate because it works for 
> some people, so xfpm and gpm have the same mapping for this key, so 
> what is gpm and xfpm is as follow:
>
> XF86XK_Suspend = Hibernate.
> XF86XK_Hibernate = Hibernate.
> XF86XK_Sleep = Suspend.
>
>
> Here's Richard's (author of gpm) comment in gpm-button.c about this 
> issue:
> /*
> * The kernel messes up suspend/hibernate in some places. One of
> * them is the key names. Unfortunately, they refuse to see the
> * errors of their way in the name of 'compatibility'. Meh
> */
>
>>
>> Maybe I am wrong and it is just a problem with xorg.
>>
>>
> The wrong thing is these kind of trivial work is still not done 
> properly, at the limit i could provide a hidden key for configuring 
> xfpm to map XF86XK_Suspend to whether Hibernate or to Suspend via 
> xfconf, the default value for this key is open for voting :).
>>
I guess it's really not that important too me. I can still get suspend 
to work by mapping the suspend action to the hibernate button (which is 
technically the sleep button on my keyboard).

Maybe one day when I update the kernel the sleep key will magically turn 
back to XF86Sleep :-)