2009/11/20 Christian Krause <c...@plauener.de>: > Hi, > > Ever since I've started to use my netbook under Linux I've missed > quite much the feature of "auto-hibernate" which was available in windows: > > In order to save as much battery power as possible Windows did the > following: > > - after some minutes of inactivity (or closing the LID) the netbook > was suspended (to RAM) > > - if the user has woken it up during the next 15 minutes, it just > resumed quickly > > - otherwise it woke up automatically only to fully hibernate now > > By using this process the user didn't had to think about what would > be the best option to save power or what he must do to prevent that the > suspend mode would drain the battery, everything was done completely > automatically. Especially for only occasional usage of the netbook/laptop > it was very handy and so the time until the next recharge was quite long. > > Using hybrid-suspend was not an option, because even if it would enable > the user to resume after a complete power-loss it does not prevent draining > the battery... > > > I've missed that feature so much, that Ingo van Lil and I have put together > an extension to pm-utils which implements this feature. > > It is implemented by only one additional file in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/ > and a configuration file in /etc). Both files are attached to this mail. > > > What's your opinion about this idea? > Is there a chance to integrate this into the official pm-utils? > If yes, we would certainly help to achieve this! ;-)
I think this is a very neat feature. I would prefer though if it doesn't use a separate configuration file. If it is for setting TIME_TO_HIBERNATE only, I'd rather prefer if it would use the common mechanism by dropping a file in /etc/pm/config.d. I also think, that ideally such setting is configured with a GUI in the desktop session. Maybe it would make sense to extend DK-power/gnome-power-manager, so such options can be configured within g-p-m and passed down to pm-suspend (via a command line switch). I CCed Richard, as I'm interested what he thinks about that. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list Pm-utils@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
