I have an IBM ThinkPad T42 and currently have Edgy on it. I've often made fun of g-p-m notifications claiming I have a few minutes left when actually my battery was close to 100%, just after unplugging the AC power.
Today g-p-m had its revenge: I unsuspended my laptop (without first plugging it into AC) and saw a message saying the battery level was critical and the machine started hibernating. The GNOME battery level applet showed 80% of battery left at the time. Due to an unrelated kernel bug, my laptop barely lasts overnight in S3 sleep. If for some reason I do not plug it in early enough next morning, I find it powered off, but not hibernated. In other words, the "hibernate if power is low" setting of g-p-m appears to be a bit worse than completely useless for me. Perhaps it would help if g-p-m watched for changes in AC state, and considered the battery timings to be worthless for, say, 5 seconds after a power state change. -- Critical power warning at 99% https://launchpad.net/bugs/42705 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
