-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2008-10-29 at 14:22 +0100, Holger Macht wrote:
Assuming that it's mentioned in the release notes, user who use other applications than the default ones, they also know how to change the default settings.
If they know they have to change something! I didn't know.
I assume you mean that "gcc" is not a default app? Because it will not be detected. Or thunderbird? My machine hybernated while I had a Thunderbird session opened and connected to two remote imap servers.
The application does not have to be detected, it has to inform the freedesktop.org interface that it's something doing and thus the system should not be suspended. These days _every_ applications should be power management aware, because it's just something omnipresent. So yes, a bugreport agains Thunderbird, preferably upstream, would be a good idea.
No, sorry. It was your decission to implement this default, so you search for non-compliant apps. I'm wasting a lot of my valuable time as it is on this absurd default thing :/
Plus, there is no _easy_ method for root to change this default systemwise.
Root shouldn't have to do this, but the user. In most cases, for servers, you don't have a full blows GNOME/KDE desktop at all, so this shouldn't be an issue there. And nobody said it should be easy.
Oh, yes, it has to be easy. Remember we are talking about openSUSE, not SLES.
Gconf-editor is broken in this respect (bugzilla filled), and an exact command line to dissable autohibernation is not published, AFAIK.
I'll create a www.opensuse.org/EnergyStar page to include the rationale and tips and tricks.
That might help. But better change the default, and let the user change it. Ie, the other way round. Our decision to autohibernate, not yours.
I'm not saying this setting makes sense by default -- I changed it on my computer ;-) I'm merely explaining how things could work.
How exactly do I disable that setting for all the users?
Change who's allowed to suspend the system in /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.policy
Which is not easy!
I'm not a professional sysadmin (this is not SLES), so I have no idea how to change that policy. First provide a GUI tool to change those settins, then come back and tell us :-|
gnome-control-center -> Power Management
That only works for the current user.
Further: I do want to hybernate my machine, I do it several times a day. But _I_, not you. On my command, when I know it is safe.
It's just the default, so you are free to change it.
Not system wide, I'm not! :-/ - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkIZeUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WwGgCcDE2nnr0pcM1lSf9yi6koQe5g L2MAnRVm++SOt5wQU5p3HvBmP5SB/eQN =71F1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org