On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:00 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote: > On Friday 30 of March 2007, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:34 +0200, Holger Macht wrote: > > > On Fri 30. Mar - 13:21:24, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 23:30 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 00:25 +0200, Holger Macht wrote: > > > > > > People want to disable gnome power manager on usual desktop > > > > > > systems. > > > > > > > > > > I would disagree with this quite strongly. g-p-m on a desktop loads > > > > > hardly any modules at runtime (less CPU and memory use) but still > > > > > controls DPMS and Inhibit control. > > > > > > > > > > Lots of desktops suspend and hibernate. I've never told anyone to > > > > > disable g-p-m on a desktop on a desktop... > > > > > > > > yeah, and in those that don't suspend or hibernate, you don't realise > > > > it's there, since it hardly takes any resources and doesn't show any > > > > icon on the screen. > > Uhm ... g-p-m is that little process called gnome-power-manager for which > Exmap after GNOME startup claims 2MB of memory used solely by it? Yeah, > right, that's surely considered hardly any resources these days and the > ability to reboot is well worth it. > -- > Lubos Lunak > KDE developer
Well, you could contribute to the discussion, or bash GNOME applications. g-p-m uses a lot of libraries, and loads only the gobjects for the hardware you have on your system. Try compiling without DPMS and see the memory reduction. Richard. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
