On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Times at which I am not by my laptop I leave my laptop locked using
> 'xlock'. I know this isn't the best way because 'xlock' consumes many
> CPU cycles.
>
> What is the best way to lock my laptop so that when I do resume work
> my laptop isn't at 75 degree celcius (My CPU fan doesn't seem to stop
> or slow down either).
>
> Moreover are there any recent guides/docs to enable power management
> features on a laptop (I've already checked the Gentoo guide; Any other
> guides out there?).
Even within xlock, there are significant improvements over running the
command with no options.
xlock -mode blank
is a start, although there's an option to reduce its keyboard polling
frequency, which would help more. Note that an application that was
APCI aware or select on keyboard input, rather than poll, would be even
more of an improvement. (And finding such a piece of software that will
work with your laptop is why the others asked what model, as APCI is not
yet uniformly implemented across all systems.)
Ed
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