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  From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
  To  : Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
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  Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 22:38:54 -0400

Re: pre-suspend notifications?

On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 05:17:18PM -0700, Jamie Zawinski wrote:

> > Sure, make sure you're running the 'apmd' program (3.0beta2 or newer)
> > and use the '-s' argument.  Hmm, it seems the man page doesn't document
> > that. Oops.
> 
> Thanks, but it would be nice if I could make xscreensaver note that
> suspension is about to happen without forcing the user to run apmd, or to
> reconfigure it.  What's the mechanism by which apmd itself receives these
> notifications?

You need to be root then, I think.  Download the apmd source and see.  It's
pretty simple.

> Is this something that really does tend to work, or is this one of those
> things that only some laptop models will do right?

I've never had anyone complain to me that it doesn't work.  Any laptop that
didn't do that wouldn't be complying with the APM standard properly.

Have fun,

Avery