how to detect whether a laptop is docked
Nellis, Kenneth
Kenneth.Nellis@xerox.com
Wed Aug 26 20:59:00 GMT 2015
Dear Cygwin Users:
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).
* https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/147332-how-do-you-detect-a-docking-station/
‡ /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/IDConfigDB/CurrentDockInfo/DockingState
--Ken Nellis
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