On 2009-03-07, Mico Filós <elmico.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you all for your feedback. I will play with the scripts a little...
While you're at it, write ion-power-manager. Something simple and reliable to replace the awful bloated and complicated gnome and kde crap. No fucking HAL crap; just talk to /sys, acpi, whatever. Can be Thinkpad-specific. Indeed probably should be based on plugins specific to particular computer models or classes instead of over-engineered low-level abstr^Windirection. (I tried reading the gnome-power-damager code to see how it works... with the effort I put into it, I couldn't make heads and tails of how it's interacting with other HAL/DBus crap; how the XSync extension is supposed to keep track of idle times -- the documentation of the extension is poor at best -- if it is supposed to do that. You have to trace a gazillion levels of indirection. I'd probably just use the screensaver extension for idle timing, if it can be tricked into multiple timeouts. After all, you want to run the screen lock _before_ suspend/hibernate; the scripts should synchronise the locking program startup, or just include the screen lock in the power manager. The Gnome crap doesn't do this, and all the system-level scripts have finished restoring the system from suspension -- when all the sun spots are correctly aligned and it all works -- before it seems to run the locker, which is a big gleaming security black hole. But it's a lot of work to do all that, and for now Windows mostly works for me. I'm really liking _reliable_ suspend and hibernate in Windowsland, foobar2k, undervolting -- even that requires a fucking kernel patch on the piece of shit Linux -- etc. Finally even managed to get locales/UTF-8 working in Cygwin: the trick is to use LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8.UTF-8. The biggest problem ATM is getting a cygwin version of darcs. If it doesn't work out, I may have to switch to Mercurial for Ion and my other projects.) -- In 1995, Linux was almost a bicycle; an alternative way of live to the Windows petrol beasts that had to be taken to the dealer for service. By 2008, Linux has bloated into a gas-guzzler, and local vendors and artisans have had to yield to "all under one roof" big box hypermarkets.
