The solution I had to apply to this was to protect my hibernate acpi support script with a lock that avoids the double pm-hibernate call. This ended up being like something like this:
then
...
pm-hibernate
( sleep 2 ; rm -f /etc/acpi/powerbtn.lock ) &
fi
Anyway, while I was waiting for the ACPI guys not to answer me I was exploring some things which are the ones I wanted to write down here.
First: The good old typical linux low level mapping with setkeycodes, in this case if you want to map scroll lock (0x46) to the sleep key (142) you'll do
Second: If you happen to have around a webcam with a button you can try to do something with it, if you are lucky enough that button may be mapped to the "XF86WebCam" key, this happened to me on a Logitech Quickcam 5500 (046d:09a1). It is easy on icewm to map this key writing on .icewm/keys something like this that execs your favourite command:
There is something you must be aware of, the webcam button may not work if the camera device is not opened, in this case you can launch on background on your startup sequence a little perl script like this one which sleeps forever once it opens the video device:
Third: There are some programs like esekeyd and triggerhappy that can map your events (like the ones from the webcam) to keys and things like that, esekeyd has some limitations I comment here and triggerhappy is supposed to be a bit more powerfull, but I don't know if triggerhappy can work without the perl script I commented earlier, esekeyd right now can't. The config for esekeyd on my machine was to set on /etc/defaults/esekeyd this:
Fourth: Userspace typically can't just signal hibernate but there I discovered the upower package that allows you to signal hibernate from userspace using a dbus signal and works great, with that my second example ended up with this sh oneliner (that locks my desktop and then sends the hibernate event wich acpi processes) on .icewm/keys:
