Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-02-07 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:21:48 -0500 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: Hi, I follow this discussion with some astonishment. As pbbuttond was born, none of the programs named here existed except pmud. It started as a small project to just make the brightness and volume function keys

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-02-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:21:48PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: - backlight dimming is handled by gnome - function keys are very well handled by xorg gnome - suspend to ram is handled by gnome-power-manager What else do you need ? Not everyone's using Gnome. I'm not arguing

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-02-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm glad you're happy with pbbuttonsd. My questions have nothing to do with whether pbbuttonsd is good or bad. Stefan Børge == Børge Holen holen.bo...@gmail.com writes: On 31. jan.. 2009, at 22.20, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: E.g. is pbbuttonsd's cpu

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-02-01 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le samedi 31 janvier 2009 à 21:38 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : Thanks, I am reading the list I post to, otherwise I wouldn't had followed up to the thread. ;) No need to extra Cc me. I thought it was the policy on this list ... sorry for the annoyance. The unnamed desktop environment in

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:50:51PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * benoar ben...@free.fr [2009-01-30 14:40:02 CET]: I personally had a G4 iBook than ran without pbbuttonsd : Fine, I didn't deny that it's not possible. - function keys are very well handled by xorg gnome How are xorg

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-31 Thread Andrzej Mendel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafal Czlonka pisze: benoar wrote: - backlight dimming is handled by gnome - function keys are very well handled by xorg gnome - suspend to ram is handled by gnome-power-manager What else do you need ? Not everyone's using Gnome. Cheers,

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-31 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le vendredi 30 janvier 2009 à 22:18 +0100, Børge Holen a écrit : Top posting. Gnome default? When did that happen? Never did a default, but how does gnome know I got backlit buttons on F9-11? As far as I remember, selecting the unnamed desktop environnement in the debian-installer installs

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-31 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Thanks, I am reading the list I post to, otherwise I wouldn't had followed up to the thread. ;) No need to extra Cc me. * Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr [2009-01-31 20:45:10 CET]: As far as I remember, selecting the unnamed desktop environnement in the debian-installer installs

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-31 Thread Børge Holen
On 31. jan.. 2009, at 22.20, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: E.g. is pbbuttonsd's cpu throttling similar to what cpufreqd/ powernowd do or does it work differently? What about the comparison with the kernel's ondemand scaling governor (tho this doesn't work on my G4, so

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-30 Thread Børge Holen
On 30. jan.. 2009, at 02.13, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: I notice that my Debian testing install includes pbbuttonsd and starst it at boot. But looking at the home page of that project, it seems that what it offers is already provided by other parts of the system

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-30 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca [2009-01-29 21:23:44 CET]: I notice that my Debian testing install includes pbbuttonsd and starst it at boot. But looking at the home page of that project, it seems that what it offers is already provided by other parts of the system nowadays. What

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-30 Thread Rafal Czlonka
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: So is it still useful, and if so for what? Why do you think it's not? +1 PS: Running on a PowerBook G4 12. PowerBook G4 15 iBook G4 12 Cheers, Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-30 Thread benoar
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:51:47 +, Rafal Czlonka rafal.czlo...@googlemail.com wrote: Gerfried Fuchs wrote: So is it still useful, and if so for what? Why do you think it's not? +1 I personally had a G4 iBook than ran without pbbuttonsd : - cpu throttling, hard-disk power save mode and

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-30 Thread Rafal Czlonka
benoar wrote: - backlight dimming is handled by gnome - function keys are very well handled by xorg gnome - suspend to ram is handled by gnome-power-manager What else do you need ? Not everyone's using Gnome. Cheers, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-30 Thread Bin Zhang
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:40 PM, benoar ben...@free.fr wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:51:47 +, Rafal Czlonka rafal.czlo...@googlemail.com wrote: Gerfried Fuchs wrote: So is it still useful, and if so for what? Why do you think it's not? +1 I personally had a G4 iBook than ran

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-30 Thread benoar
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:46:28 +, Rafal Czlonka rafal.czlo...@googlemail.com wrote: benoar wrote: - backlight dimming is handled by gnome - function keys are very well handled by xorg gnome - suspend to ram is handled by gnome-power-manager What else do you need ? Not everyone's using

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-30 Thread Børge Holen
Top posting. Gnome default? When did that happen? Never did a default, but how does gnome know I got backlit buttons on F9-11? On 30. jan.. 2009, at 17.24, benoar ben...@free.fr wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:46:28 +, Rafal Czlonka rafal.czlo...@googlemail.com wrote: benoar wrote: -

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-30 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* benoar ben...@free.fr [2009-01-30 14:40:02 CET]: I personally had a G4 iBook than ran without pbbuttonsd : Fine, I didn't deny that it's not possible. - function keys are very well handled by xorg gnome How are xorg gnome able to regulate the lighting of the keyboard? Your scenario also

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
- backlight dimming is handled by gnome - function keys are very well handled by xorg gnome - suspend to ram is handled by gnome-power-manager What else do you need ? Not everyone's using Gnome. I'm not arguing for/against pbbuttonsd. I just see that a lot of what it provides is already

What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
I notice that my Debian testing install includes pbbuttonsd and starst it at boot. But looking at the home page of that project, it seems that what it offers is already provided by other parts of the system nowadays. So is it still useful, and if so for what? Stefan PS: Running on a