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	nicolai	2010-09-13 , 12:09
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Originally Posted by Willem Liu

MohammadAG, hmm yes that's quite a drawback. I'll have to study lockdaemons source code to see if there is any dbus calls used there which receives the signal from the keyboard.

You should listen for the dbus event, which only tells you the
state has changed. Than you read the value from
/sys/devices/platform/gpio-switch/slide/state
to see, if the slide is open or closed.

regards
Nicolai

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