Il 23/08/2013 07:22, Peter ha scritto:
On 23/08/13 04:56, Marco Calistri wrote:
Hello OpenSuSers,
IMHO, we are missing an acoustic alarm as well as a really working hibernate or suspend function in 12.3.
It is very annoying being sudden logged out by the system powering down without the possibility to be warned in advance (by acoustic alarm) or to restart exactly from the point wherein you have been logged off by critical battery level.
So far I'm experiencing these issues in my opensuse 12.3.
Sorry to have to admit thhat ones again Windows appears to be more versatile on this matter.
What DE are you using? In KDE, you can go to the System Settings -> Power Management, select the Advanced Settings, and from there you have many options. Set at what point the battery is regarded as critical level, what action should be performed (e.g. suspend), and then by clicking on Configure Notifications and clicking the Battery Critical line, you can set to play a sound, show a popup, mark the taskbar entry or run a command.
Of course, if you're not using KDE your choices may well be more limited or require extra extensions to be installed to find equivalent functionality. Some DEs are geared towards a more minimalist approach for users who aren't so concerned with fine tuning and options galore. If you're expecting configuration options akin to Windows then you probably *should* be using KDE which, IMHO, surpasses Windows with its configurability.
Hi Peter, I have just tested this functionality on KDE 4.10.5. I set to receive a notifications when battery reaches critical threshold both on screen and by sound alarm, but nothing happened: laptop powered down and worst of all, without go in hibernate state! There are some settings I should verify in BIOS? I'm using Lenovo Z470. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64 bit - Kernel 3.7.10-1.16-desktop Gnome 3.8.4 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org