Re: [gpm] Power Manager Upgrade

["William Jon McCann" <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi,

On 10/10/06, David Zeuthen <david fubar dk> wrote:

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 23:31 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 23:26 +0100, Rui Miguel wrote:
> > Have any extension for powermanager to control beter the brigthness of
> > LCD from nootebook?
> > A extension or upgrade to do anithing similar to apple machintoch
> > nootebook's.
> > For example, after minutes the brigthness reduce for 10%.
> > Anybody have sugestion?
>
> It already does this! When your session is idle (by default after 10
> minutes) it dims your screen down to 30%.

Actually, I don't find the current behavior useful. g-p-m really should
dim the display after say 30 seconds or 1 minute, I think that's the
expected usage. And, btw, no need to make this value configurable from
the UI.

I think we can fix this as soon as I branch g-s:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350293

Jon