Ubuntu Vivid upgrade (Xmonad) : ezyang’s blog

Ubuntu Vivid upgrade (Xmonad)

Another half year, another Ubuntu upgrade. This upgrade went essentially smoothly: the only things that stopped working were my xbindkeys bindings for volume and suspend, which were easy to fix.

Volume up and down

If you previously had:

#Volume Up
"pactl set-sink-volume 0 -- +5%"
    m:0x10 + c:123
    Mod2 + XF86AudioRaiseVolume

this syntax no longer works: you must place the double dash earlier in the command, as so:

#Volume Up
"pactl -- set-sink-volume 0 +5%"
    m:0x10 + c:123
    Mod2 + XF86AudioRaiseVolume

Do the same for volume down.

Suspend

If you previously had:

#Sleep
"dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend"
     m:0x10 + c:150
     Mod2 + XF86Sleep

UPower no longer handles suspend; you have to send the command to login:

#Sleep
"dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.Suspend boolean:true"
    m:0x10 + c:150
    Mod2 + XF86Sleep