Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[aram v nathan <sjcmi-mowr@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 09:23 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:18 +0100, Per Kustemo wrote:
> > But this problem was cause I'm not running KDE, i'm trying to get this
> > to work in GNOME.
> > Here it comes again.
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Hi.
> > When I use the KDE there is a powersave for my laptop monitor (just
> > the monitor) so it goes totally black but I'm not able to find the
> > same option in GNOME (the monitor goes black but not totally as in
> > KDE).
> > Is there some setting I have missed or is there som package I have to install?
> > Regards
> > /Per
> Since the fine folks that are creating Gnome consider "less control" to
> be "less confusing" to the user it probably does not exist. The best
> thing to do would be to write the developers requesting control over the
> shutdown of the monitor and then -not- hold your breath waiting for a
> change. There was a long discussion involving Linus (the linux creator)
> about why there are so few options for the user to make changes to their
> gnome environment the the developers said that having to many control
> options available to the user would be "confusing" to the user. Go
> figure.
> 
Bill Gates also thought likewise perhaps thats why his OS has been a
succcess in no small measure.
> Long live KDE.
> 
> -- 
> Ken Schneider
> UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998
> 
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