Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Holger Macht <hmacht@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed 29. Oct - 14:10:00, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> On Wednesday, 2008-10-29 at 13:27 +0100, Holger Macht wrote:
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> > > There should be a (or at least there was, if it's not there anymore, I
> > > haven't used Beta 3 yet) Power Management module in YaST. I'm sure it
> > > probably has control over the g-p-m app too, so it applies to all users
> > > (but I could be wrong).
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> > No, there isn't anymore. Power Management is controlled on the desktop by
> > the user. And I think that's actually what 99% of all usual home users
> > want.
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> Yes, as long as we (users) make the decision to hibernate automatically or 
> not. It is different when you set the default to hibernate without asking 
> us.

As you said, it's just a decision which have to be made, others would
maybe say, wow, what a good default, it helps to save the environment.


> For instance: my home machine serves a samba share to my external digital 
> TV box, so that it can do time shifting and recording. With your default of 
> hibernating, you can make it loose data!

That's advanced, you are root, you know what you do, you can change the
default. And yes, it will be in the release notes.


> And even on homes, a machine can have several users, and I have no click 

If one user session isn't active, aka another user is logged in, the
inactive session won't trigger a autosuspend.

> and shoot method of changing that default. That's all I ask: either change 
> the default, or provide a click and shoot method (or CLI script at least) 
> to change that default system wide.

That would be an easy script calling 'sed', I'll provide one on the
upcoming wiki page.


Regards,
        Holger
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