Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Magnus Boman wrote:

> > I move the slider to "never".
> >
> > I wonder who and why designed a default to power off the machine when
> > inactive. Just imagine a user power off a server like this! :-(
>
> This was added due to a feature request for Energy Star;
>
> # Enable Energy Star compliant default configuration
> %gconf_set /apps/gnome-power-manager/actions/sleep_type_battery
> --type=string "suspend"
> %gconf_set /apps/gnome-power-manager/timeout/sleep_computer_battery
> --type=int 1200
> %gconf_set /apps/gnome-power-manager/timeout/sleep_computer_ac
> --type=int 1200
> %gconf_set /apps/gnome-power-manager/timeout/sleep_display_ac --type=int
> 300

Argh.

> Looking at the default for GNOME Power Manager AC settings, if a timeout
> is set, it will suspend. This is most likely an oversight and I'll
> pursue this to get it fixed.

Thank you!

While I agree that hibernating and powering off a computer that is
doing nothing is generally a good idea, giving users that power of
decision is not a good idea. It must be root who decides the policy,
whatever it is: hibernate when idle, never hibernate, let user
choose... whatever. Root must be king, regardless of what desktop the
users use.

It gave me quite a fright: I thought it had crashed or something.
There was noise in the room, the box is not in direct sight, so I
didn't notice immediately it was off: just that it did not respond.


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Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.1-factory)
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