[xmonad] Power Management

[Eyal Erez]

Hi,

Thank you very much for your reply.  It seems that the latest version of
Gnome (v3) doesn't including
gnome-power-manager as a standalone service.  I guess they folded into
something else.

I looked up some instructions on how to set up acpi (
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_acpid).
I ended up modifying /etc/acpi/events/lidbtn.  I changed the "action" from
/etc/acpi/lid.sh to /etc/acpi/sleep.sh.
That seemed to have solved the issue.

Now, I need to figure out how to hibernate.

Thank you for your help.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:32, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear Eyal,
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:03:44 -0500,Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
>
> > I'm using xmonad 0.10 with Ubuntu 11.10.  I've switched to using SLiM and
> > starting xmonad from my .xsession file.
>
> > The problem is that I can't get power management to work.  Meaning, that
> > when I close my laptop lid, I would like the laptop to suspend, but not
> if
> > it is plugged in.  I would also like to have a command (or key) to
> suspend
> > and hibernate my laptop.
>
>
> I am no expert in this, but I understand that if acpi is working properly,
> the daemon is running, etc, when you close the lid, for instance, the
> appropriate behavior should be triggered. There are scripts under
> /etc/acpi which might already do what you want (though I always end up
> making changes to lid.sh).
>
>
> Commands/keys: there might be specific keys in your laptop already, and
> these might be working. For instance, they work just fine in my Asus eeepc
> and my HP ProBook. Again, you can modify the appropriate scripts under
> /etc/acpi to suit your needs.
>
>
> Of course, if that does not work for you, you can always bind a specific
> key combination to run a given script.
>
>
>
>
>
> > In previous versions I would use the gnome-power-manager.  However, that
> > has seemed to disappear from the latest version of Ubuntu.  Is there some
> > way to get this back or some other power manager I need to use?
>
>
> But, then, is the problem that you used to use gnome-power-manager, and
> that is not working anymore? I have a vague recollection of having tried
> to use that unsuccessfully a few years ago; using the support provided by
> acpi et al. (for instance, packages acpi, acpi-support, acpi-fakekey in
> Debian) directly seemed a lot simpler and more reliable.
>
>
> Best,
>
> R.
>
>
>
> > Thank you,
>
> > --
> > *Eyal Erez <**oneself at gmail.com* <oneself at gmail.com>*>*
>
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> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
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> Facultad de Medicina (UAM)
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> Email: rdiaz02 at gmail.com
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>


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*Eyal Erez <**oneself at gmail.com* <oneself at gmail.com>*>*

There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.
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