Re: Request for ergonomy feature



On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 19:37 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 08:38 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 20:46 -0300, Joel Goguen wrote:
> > > I think the problem may actually be in the system configuration, and
> > > both gnome-power-manager and NM are doing exactly what they're told to
> > > do.  After some poking around in the gnome-power-manager source, I found
> > > that it does send the sleep/wake commands to NM if the key
> > > '/apps/gnome-power-manager/general/network_sleep' is set to true.  If
> > > this is false, the sleep/wake signals won't be sent.  When I opened up
> > > the GConf config tool, this value was false for me.  I'm not able to
> > > test it yet, but in about 2 hours I'll be able to check and post back if
> > > this works.  In the meantime, if someone else is able to verify that the
> > > value is false and NM properly rescans after waking up with the value
> > > set to true that would be great :)
> > 
> > This is a distro problem.  I think g-p-m turned that key off by default
> > (I have _no_ idea why) a while ago, and distro maintainers need to be on
> > top of these sorts of things to make sure stuff works for their users.
> 
> The reason is probably that pm-utils already sends the sleep/wake
> signals to NetworkManager and that's what many distros use now.
> 
> Jürg
> 
The pm-utils package is not installed on my laptop.  It's Ubuntu Feisty
-> Gutsy upgrade.  It's also not installed on my desktop, which is
Ubuntu Edgy -> Feisty -> Gutsy upgrade.  So either Ubuntu needs to
enable the /apps/gnome-power-manager/general/network_sleep key by
default if NM is installed or install the pm-utils package by default.
I don't know if it gives some benefit to install pm-utils, but I think
it would be simpler to enable this key that AFAIK is specifically for
NM.

-- 
Joel Goguen
http://jgoguen.net/
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.  -- P. Medawar

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