Re: Moving DPMS to gnome-power-manager

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:30 +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > Il giorno sab, 07/01/2006 alle 20.52 +0100, Jaap Haitsma ha scritto:
> > 
> >>Luca Ferretti wrote:
> >>
> >>>Il giorno gio, 05/01/2006 alle 12.27 -0500, William Jon McCann ha
> >>>scritto:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>Following up from this discussion:
> >>>>http://mail.gnome.org/archives/screensaver-list/2005-November/msg00003.html
> >>>>
> >>>>I think we've agreed to move the power management stuff into 
> >>>>gnome-power-manager.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I agree :-)
> >>>
> >>>This could help GNOME to provide a coherent power manager preferences
> >>>tool like 
> >>>
> >>>        <b>System</b>
> >>>          [x] Enable system sleep when inactive for a period
> >>>          System inactivity period: --------[==]-------------------
> >>>                                    5m    15m    30m     1h      3h
> >>>        
> >>>        <b>Monitor</b>
> >>>          [x] Enable monitor sleep when inactive for a period
> >>>          Monitor inactivity period: --------[==]-------------------
> >>>                                     5m    15m    30m     1h      3h
> >>>        
> >>
> >>Luca,
> >>
> >>Something like that is already in gnome power preferences.
> > 
> > 
> > Oh, it seems that on my system[1] the display slider don't appear :-(
> > 
> > 
> > [1] well, in my GNOME HEAD test install using jhbuild to be honest
> > 
> 
> You have to have gnome screensaver running and dpms has to be enabled

Jaap is correct. This will become a lot simpler soon when DPMS moves
from gnome-screensaver to gnome-power-manager.

Richard.