Power-down when Idle ?

[Antonio Candito]

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check in system settings -> laptops and power -> ****  battery -> acpi
config and that hibernate enabled.

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On 8/18/07, David Collins <dcolli22 at csc.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a regular tower PC (ie. not a laptop) running xubuntu, and I want
> it to power-down the screen and hard-disk when it had been idle for a while
> - but haven't been able to get it to work.  Can someone help ?
>
> I have installed gnome-power-manager, and run gnome-power-preferences -
> and set 'Put computer to sleep when inactive for 1 minute' and 'Put display
> to sleep when inactive for 1 minute'.  (I will make the time longer once it
> is working.)
>
> When I log in, gnome-power-manager is already running in the background
> ...
> $ ps aux | grep -i 'power'
> david     5238  0.1  1.9  45220  9844 ?        Ss   13:53   0:00
> gnome-power-manager --sm-config-prefix /gnome-power-manager-kRi81T/
> --sm-client-id 117f000001000118740612500000051650000 --screen 0
>
> Neither the screen nor the disk is powering down after a minute or more of
> inactivity.
> Is there anything else I have to do ?  Anything in the BIOS to set ?
>
> Regards,
> David Collins
>
>
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