Re: power saving?

2011-10-09 Thread cornel panceac
2011/10/8 Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 22:18 +0300, cornel panceac wrote: thank you , roy. i wonder if there's a way to tell the system to stay awake while different selected user space programs are running (like mplayer, eog, movie player, etc).

Re: power saving?

2011-10-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 22:18 +0300, cornel panceac wrote: thank you , roy. i wonder if there's a way to tell the system to stay awake while different selected user space programs are running (like mplayer, eog, movie player, etc). Applications can tell the system not to suspend (it's called

Re: power saving?

2011-10-07 Thread Roy Six
On 10/07/2011 01:10 PM, cornel panceac wrote: i don't understand how this power saving works. my thinkpad suspended while playing music, my desktop suspended while displaying a slideshow. why the power management ignored those two activities? Hi, I think that is supposed to be the way

Re: power saving?

2011-10-07 Thread cornel panceac
2011/10/7 Roy Six roy...@gmail.com On 10/07/2011 01:10 PM, cornel panceac wrote: i don't understand how this power saving works. my thinkpad suspended while playing music, my desktop suspended while displaying a slideshow. why the power management ignored those two activities?

Re: power saving?

2011-10-07 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 22:18 +0300, cornel panceac wrote: thank you , roy. i wonder if there's a way to tell the system to stay awake while different selected user space programs are running (like mplayer, eog, movie player, etc). Mplayer and probably most movie players can suppress the

Re: power saving?

2011-10-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:04:23 -0500 John Morris wrote: Mplayer and probably most movie players can suppress the screen saver. They can suppress the X screensaver, but the X screensaver and power management isn't good enough for gnome, they have to have their own entirely separate system which

Re: power saving?

2011-10-07 Thread Kevin DeKorte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/07/2011 03:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:04:23 -0500 John Morris wrote: Mplayer and probably most movie players can suppress the screen saver. They can suppress the X screensaver, but the X screensaver and power