RE: 2.4 Proposed Modules - battfink

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Glynn Foster [mailto:glynn foster sun com] 
> > - The new Energy Saving control panel lets me choose a 
> standby time, when
> > xscreensaver should start. Is this the same setting 
> (gconf?) as used by
> > RedHat's (?) Screensaver control panel (xscreensaver-demo 
> -crapplet). In
> > battfink's control panel seems to be a copy of the 
> Advanced/Display Power
> > Mangement part there, so I guess you've thought about it.
> 
> Yeah, this is basically a copy of the XScreensaver stuff using DPMS.

So, what's DPMS? Sorry for my ignorance. An official URL might be nice.

As I understand it, there's 2 laptop suspend systems - APM and ACPI. How
does battfink know what to use?

Murray Cumming
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