Re: [e-users] Can I stop some parts of e17 for power savings?

2013-09-22 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 04:43:18PM +0100, Mick wrote: I just tested on 0.17.3, it worked fine. E kept working normally after sending firefox a SIGSTOP, and firefox picked up normally after SIGCONT. I can confirm that firefox works fine here with SIGSTOP and SIGCONT, *but* battery

Re: [e-users] Can I stop some parts of e17 for power savings?

2013-09-22 Thread P Purkayastha
On 09/23/2013 06:47 AM, Marc MERLIN wrote: On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 04:43:18PM +0100, Mick wrote: I just tested on 0.17.3, it worked fine. E kept working normally after sending firefox a SIGSTOP, and firefox picked up normally after SIGCONT. I can confirm that firefox works fine here with

Re: [e-users] Can I stop some parts of e17 for power savings?

2013-09-17 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello, On 09/16/2013 11:01 PM, Marc MERLIN wrote: Note, I have an old e16 0. on that machine. I can upgrade to latest 0.17 or some e18, but I know it will wipe my entire carefully setup desktop that took me a long time to get just right :) so I haven't run towards that option without

Re: [e-users] Can I stop some parts of e17 for power savings?

2013-09-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 Sep 2013 14:56:57 Ross Vandegrift wrote: Hello, On 09/16/2013 11:01 PM, Marc MERLIN wrote: Note, I have an old e16 0. on that machine. I can upgrade to latest 0.17 or some e18, but I know it will wipe my entire carefully setup desktop that took me a long time to get

Re: [e-users] Can I stop some parts of e17 for power savings?

2013-09-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
First, my apologies for the very late reply. I did read your answers and worked on them, but didn't have enough good data to reply. What I found is that something in enlightenment goes into a tight loop if I SIGSTOP a program like firefox-bin. I tried unloading all modules and the tight loop does

Re: [e-users] Can I stop some parts of e17 for power savings?

2013-09-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 08:30:48AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: First, my apologies for the very late reply. I did read your answers and worked on them, but didn't have enough good data to reply. What I found is that something in enlightenment goes into a tight loop if I SIGSTOP a program like

Re: [e-users] Can I stop some parts of e17 for power savings?

2013-08-14 Thread P Purkayastha
Easier way: enlightenment_remote -module-{disable,enable,load,unload} I used this to check which modules make most wakeups. net module is quite notorious and unloading it helps a lot. It updates the module every couple of ms, which causes a lot of wakeups. I use the following patch to reduce

[e-users] Can I stop some parts of e17 for power savings?

2013-08-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
When I go to battery, I often apply some battery saving techniques, like killall -STOP firefox chrome unload, some modules, etc, etc. For e17, I'd love to be able to freeze the fancy panel/shelf with icons and systray. If I killall -STOP enlightenment, I see further battery savings, but stopping

Re: [e-users] Can I stop some parts of e17 for power savings?

2013-08-13 Thread Dave
Disabling/Enabling modules is the only solution I can think of. You can do it from the command line like so: qdbus org.enlightenment.wm.service /org/enlightenment/wm/RemoteObject org.enlightenment.wm.Module.Disable clock Can't disable shelves, but you can disable the elements in a shelf. A

Re: [e-users] Can I stop some parts of e17 for power savings?

2013-08-13 Thread Dave
Actually, there is another solution. Use profiles. That'll work with shelves, and you can dynamically switch profiles from the command line. In the year 2013, of the month of August, on the 14th day, Dave wrote: Disabling/Enabling modules is the only solution I can think of. You can do