I've recently done a bit of work on that, with a very recent version, you can set IS_LAPTOP=True at the top of powermanage.py. This is a workaround to allow powermanager to run, even if HAL reports that the machine is not a laptop (in which case it exits by default).
The reason why I did that was to allow to control CPU frequency via the applet, and hibernate / suspend after a while. I do agree with you that this functionality is useful also for non- laptop machines. I'm not sure, however, if extending the scope of powermanager does any good to its primary use cases. Care to check if the hack I introduced comes close to the thing you want? -- [Feisty] guidance-power-manager doesn't work for UPS on a desktop system https://launchpad.net/bugs/82277 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
