On April 9, 2009 11:31:28 Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > On Thursday 09 April 2009 19:55:49 Chani wrote: > > how do you warn the user if they close their laptop lid? :) > > it does make sense for all other triggers, though. > > > > ...hmm, if the warning had a sound effect I might notice when closing my > > laptop. *most* of the time I also wait for it to finish suspend before > > putting it in my backpack, but it's so reliable now that I don't always > > check. > > O yeah, right, didn't think of the laptop case. (I don't got a laptop > myself) But for laptops, blocking suspend is even worse: you can suddenly > discover that your battery is empty, because the last time you closed the > lid the laptop didn't suspend because you had a job running. > One thing we could do is maybe have a sound when you have a job running and > close the lid: delay the suspend for half a minute or something, so the > user has the chance to open the lid again and wait for the job to end, or > just ignore it and have the job aborted. I'm not sure if this is a plasma > thing, I have no idea what actually takes care of suspending when you close > your laptop lid.
it's a powerdevil thing, and it used to delay suspend by ten seconds anyways. I'm not sure what happened to that - maybe I turned it off - but I remember hal having issues with it. -- This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. www.chani3.com
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