I think there is a further extension to this problem. kde-guidance should work anyways, regardless of if you have a UPS or not.
I am a pretty environmentally concious guy, and I like ot have my PC hibernate or suspend when it goes unused for more than an hour. Previously, the only place I had installed kubuntu was on my work laptop, and was happy with how this functionality worked via the guidenc eapplet's idle settings. Now I install it on my desktop, and come to find that short of writing your own script and adding it to the crontab yourself, there is no way to have a desktop PC automatically hibernate with the default install There's no applet, nothing under screensaver management nothing. I ended up apt-get'ing kpowersave (that doesn't ship by default), which seems like a great app. But anyway this seems really hokey to me. I don't know why this app should be keyed at all on the fact that you have a battery - laptop, UPS, or otherwise. If you're PC doesn't have a battery then disable those portions of the app. HAL works to suspend and hibernate ACPI capable PC's without batteries just fine. -- [Feisty] guidance-power-manager doesn't work for UPS on a desktop system https://launchpad.net/bugs/82277 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
