Laptop mode on Hardy

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/8/7 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>> Define "work".
> 
> The transfer of energy between systems, without the transfer of entropy.
> Or, if you prefer: W = F*d*cos(theta)
> theta: angle between V(vector) and F(vector).

There's one in every bunch <sigh>

> By the way, KDE's guidance-power-manager is great. Try to see if it
> will run in Gnome.
 
It is?  You can't do anything but suspend/hibernate/shutdown, control
brightness and lock the screen when the lid is closed (at least on my
system).  The underlying app is apparently capable of a great deal more
(and I thought the gnome front end was, too) but the KDE applet doesn't
give me much control.
-- 
derek