Re: Determining idleness when auto-suspending

2007-11-16 Thread Odysseus Flappington
On 14/11/2007, Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously, I don't think that this has to specifically include all devices that make up a system. For instance, checking the graphics card to see whether it's in use would be useless since a screensaver could be using it while the

Re: gnome power manager inhibit

2007-10-20 Thread Odysseus Flappington
On 19/10/2007, Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is pretty basic laptop stuff, and since equivalent bugs haven't been reported on Windows and that generally I've never come across these problems, I would conclude that they've found a more effective way of implementing this.

gnome power manager inhibit

2007-10-19 Thread Odysseus Flappington
Hi everyone, It appears to me that how Gnome Power Manager determines whether the computer idle before it suspends/hibernates could be better designed. I understand that it is each application's responsibility to inhibit the computer from sleeping while in use (