Description:

As shipped with acpid, /etc/acpi/handler.sh is a "default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions". There are three problems with this: first, it does not, in fact, contain an entry for "all" actions. The hotkeys on my ThinkPad are not supported. Secondly, the design of the acpi event delivery mechanism encourages separate scripts for every action, which is a cleaner, more understandable, and easier-to-maintain approach. The third problem is a consequence of the second: handler.sh is fugly and ponderous.

I would volunteer to produce a set of replacement default scripts for acpid, providing the Powers-That-Be approve. I like the (as I recall it) Gentoo method whereby the default script merely prints the received event to the system logger: this allows people writing new handlers to easily look up the events they want to handle, while remaining a nop.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

$ pacman -Qs acpid
local/acpid 1.0.6-1

* config and/or log files etc.

/etc/acpi/handler.sh

Steps to reproduce:

# cat /etc/acpi/handler.sh
# /usr/bin/gag