three different power managers

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sat Jul 21 20:36:15 UTC 2007


pol wrote:

> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Why do you say that "surely they are conflicting"? They are not, so
>> long as you don't start them all at once. I personally use the
>> unmaintained KLaptop. Old, unmaintained KDE software is sometimes
>> better than the throw-every-feature-at-it new KDE software. For
>> another example, look at KnowIt.
>> 
>  
> Sure, if they are not running at the same time, they do not conflict each
> other. The problem was that they were running together.
> I succeeded quitting klaptopd, yet "power manager" cannot be uninstalled
> (it restarts at every new sessions). Any ideas?
> 

The KDE part is kde-guidance-powermanager.  I suspect you can't remove it
without removing kubuntu-desktop.

Personally, it's good enough for me - I actually preferred kpowersave, but
don't see enough of an improvement in it to remove powermanager in favor of
powersave.
-- 
derek





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