right.. i was abit confused by the first response.
but no there are no power management controls for desktops. is it just
assumed that a user won't want to sleep a linux box? that's not very
usefull for using it as a workstation.
m.
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
On 4/13/06, Derick Centeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Within KDE look for the Control Panel and select Screensaver or you can enter
within the search area Screensaver and select which screensaver you
would prefer as well as within what time that screensaver is to be
activated.
Actually, the screen saver isn't 'sleeping' the machine, what you
want to look at is the power management tools. Often the screen saver
will be made aware of power management settings, but you usually can't
update them from there. On my laptop, in the Control Centre there's a
section called 'Powerbook Battery' which I imagine is something else
on desktop machines (sorry, out of town and don't have one in front of
me).
For details regarding the sleep command itself, do:
$ man sleep
This isn't putting the machine to sleep, this is something a process
does, not at all the same thing. What's closer to what the person had
asked for is apm (man apm), although I don't know if there are
newer/better things for power management, since I've never put a
desktop Linux box to sleep.
Cheers,
Chris
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