xfce4-power-manager and battery settings

[Robby Workman]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:24:20 +0100
Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:45:54 +0100
> Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On jeu, 2009-03-19 at 22:29 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > > Would there be a reason for not including Suspend in the list?
> > 
> > Basically suspend is useless (it'll run out of bat anyway). I guess
> > that might be the reason.
> 
> Then why not support HybridSuspend? It's lovely. It saves to ram and
> disk at the same time and then goes into suspend mode. When the
> machine runs out of battery, you still got the contents on disk to
> resume after rebooting. If you still have battery you're back in few
> seconds just like with resume.
> 
> It's supported by HAL and pm-utils (in combination with uswsusp) and
> it's lovely. I use nothing else.


I'm sure it is, but all hardware doesn't support it, unfortunately.
I suspect that xfce4-power-manager will offer it as an option if the
hardware supports it (lshal will show you whether it does), or if the
xfpm doesn't currently offer it as an option, I'll be that Ali will add
it :-)

-RW
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