Re: [gpm] Re: Gnome 2.16 Module Proposal: GNOME Power Manager

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:33 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 13:29 +0200, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:
> > I'm curious: what role does the powersave daemon fulfill? I'm running
> > FC5 and afaik, HAL/g-p-m gets it information directly from the OS
> > (ACPI)?
> > 
> HAL scripts (in $prefix/libexec/hal iirc) use the underlying daemon's
> commands to suspend/hibernate/set power save profile.

In other words, the powersave daemon isn't really that useful for GNOME
on SUSE. I guess that once we get g-p-m to run when no one is logged in,
you guys can remove it completely on GNOME installations :-)

     David