Catching resume from suspend?

[David Jarvie]

On Saturday 05 Dec 2009 20:03:39 Anders Lund wrote:
> Chani skrev:
> > > > now, I get the feeling that since it doesn't Just Work yet, Solid
> > > > doesn't provide us with any such signal. this feels like the sort of
> > > > thing that solid *should* provide, but I don't know enough about the
> > > > low-level details to say how it should be implemented.
> > >
> > > This has recently been discussed on hardware-devel
> > > http://lists.kde.org/?t=125874601600001&r=1&w=2
> > 
> > thanks.
> > hmm, not looking very positive right now. silly HAL. but there's got to be
> >  a way, right? :)
> > 
> 
> Appearently, an option is to put a script in /usr/lib/pm-util that sends a 
> dbus message. That message could be caught by, say, a plasma dataengine. I 
> don't know how portable it is, but for example NetworkManager is using that on 
> my system, along with several other applications.

This is something that would be really useful as a generally available signal in KDE. I already had to make KAlarm check every minute in case of a resume, instead of just sleeping until a signal arrived or an alarm was due.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author:  http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm