Laptop mode on Hardy

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Aug 8 14:06:32 UTC 2008


Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/8/7 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>>> 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.
> 
> I was referring to the OP's concern, not your list of features.

Doh!  Sorry, I didn't realize that he _had_ actually enumerated his needs
earlier than the first post I saw.  Then yes, I agree that
guidance-power-manager should do the job.
-- 
derek





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