Re: suggestion of the day

You are right... The Poweroff button should just be another keyboard
key, IMHO.

So the answer is: because I haven't yet tried to figure out how the power
button gets signalled to the operating system yet... So it is on the 'To
Do' list, but not yet done.... It didn't jump out at me when I was doing
the initial X port.

A bit more fundamental problems like the screen saver are taking my time
at the moment...

So you're getting ahead of me :-).
                        - Jim

> Sender: handhelds-admin_at_handhelds.org
> From: Russ Nelson <rn-handhelds_at_crynwr.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:33:38 -0400 (EDT)
> To: handhelds_at_handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [Handhelds] suggestion of the day
> -----
> Jim Gettys writes:
> > The buttons on the iPAQ are mapped as keyboard keys....
>
> It seems like the general model of a Unix PDA is that it never
> *really* stops running. That is, that although the CPU may enter a
> low or very low power state, it still has power applied to it. So
> that, really, the power button on a PDA doesn't actually turn the
> power off. The only thing that makes it special is that it may need
> hardware support (e.g. a special key decode) to get the processor's
> attention.
>
> But in software, the power button is just another key. There's
> nothing special it has to do in the kernel, so why not leave it to a
> userland program to handle? I ask, because the power button on the
> iPAQ doesn't seem to be a key.
>
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