[xmonad] Power Management

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:50:17 -0500,Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.


I guess same thing. I use one of the pm-* (pm-suspend, pm-hybrid, etc) or,
else, s2* directly (s2disk, s2ram, s2both).


Best,

R.


> 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
> > Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25.
> > Facultad de Medicina (UAM)
> > Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
> > 28029 Madrid
> > Spain
> >
> > Phone: +34-91-497-2412
> >
> > Email: rdiaz02 at gmail.com
> >       ramon.diaz at iib.uam.es
> >
> > http://ligarto.org/rdiaz
> >
> >


> -- 
> *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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-- 
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25.
Facultad de Medicina (UAM)
Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
28029 Madrid
Spain

Phone: +34-91-497-2412

Email: rdiaz02 at gmail.com
       ramon.diaz at iib.uam.es

http://ligarto.org/rdiaz