From: Michael Enright <mike@kmcardiff.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: how to detect whether a laptop is docked
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOC2fq9treK2Qt45723-=hyqrG3ftZJPQq+1i-bq+Drb8fYcuQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1440618651.6808.33.camel@cygwin.com>
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 19:27 +0000, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> I am looking for a method by which I can determine within a shell script
>> whether my laptop is docked or not. Google provided some answers for Linux
>> and Windows users, but the several ways I tried did not work out.
>>
>> One Windows solution * provided a VB script that accessed a registry variable ‡,
>> but my registry value remains the same whether or not I'm docked.
>>
>> The Linux solutions required either a file I don't have (/var/run/stab) or a tool
>> that I don't have and couldn't find in a Cygwin search (acpid or lsusb).
>
If you cat the path to the registry key it doesn't show anything but
if you hexdump it there is a '1' (in my case, 2 out of 2 systems)
stored as a DWORD I suppose. I think that value is wrong for at least
one of those (a docked laptop or a VM in a PC). I got the impression
the feature is not 100% solid.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-26 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-26 20:59 Nellis, Kenneth
2015-08-26 21:11 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-08-26 22:16 ` Michael Enright [this message]
2015-08-27 15:45 ` Nellis, Kenneth
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