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Killing keyboard on screen saver

Killing keyboard on screen saver

Posted Jun 12, 2009 10:22 UTC (Fri) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118)
Parent article: Runtime power management

While I agree that running screensaver is a strong hint for turning off devices, I disagree with example given. How I am supposed to deactivate screensaver with disabled keyboard?


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Killing keyboard on screen saver

Posted Jun 12, 2009 11:04 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Remote wakeup allows the keyboard to power back up when a key is hit. The OS knows that the keyboard has been powered back up, but not which key was pressed.

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