Hibernate on batery low

[Derek Broughton]

art wrote:

> Kennneth P. Turvey wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:50:25 -0400, art wrote:
>> 
>>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>> Raise your low-battery limit.  Mine hibernates with 10 minutes left -
>>>> perhaps it could be shorter, but at 3 minutes, it didn't work.
>>> Where did you set this?
>>> Art
>> 
>> Right click on the battery icon and then select the second tab.
>> Apparently it doesn't work, so beware.
>> 
> That's where I was looking. Under Actions, "When battery Power is
> critically low:", I have the option set to Shutdown, rather than
> hibernate. 

Ah.  On the KDE one it's "When battery remaining time drops below" and a
spin button to select the time threshold.

> I had some "interesting" behavior on restoring from a 
> hibernate (like having to type the user password into a blank screen
> where you can't see what you are typing).  

Do you have multiple screens?  I sometimes get that when I don't have the
external display connected, but I did when I hibernated.
-- 
derek