kubuntu battery applet (Power Manager)

[marc]

Derek Broughton said...
> marc wrote:
> 
> > Jan Torben Heuer said...
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> (k)ubuntu configured my desktop nicely, but one thing was better last
> >> time:
> >> 
> >> The new (edgy) "Power Manager" let my select - in case of low battery -
> >> to shutdown, hibernate, suspend or do nothing. Cool. Useless. What about
> >> WARNING me, as the applet in the last distribution did? I want to save my
> >> work and not give my last energy reserves away for suspending or
> >> whatever.
> >> 
> >> Does anyone know what the name of that old applet was and how to get it
> >> back?
> > 
> > klaptopdaemon on kde, perhaps.
> > 
> > Having both loaded caused problems here, but... you can't remove the
> > "power manager" package as kubuntu-desktops depends on it <sigh>, 
> 
> Of course you can.  kubuntu-desktop isn't a required part of your system

Unless you consider that it is.
 
> > and 
> > since you can't switch it off either - at least, I couldn't discover how
> > to - you'll need to remove the persistence script in
> > /usr/share/autostart.
> > 
> > Power management nose dived in edgy, ime.
> 
> OK, getting a warning would be nice, but in what way is hibernating worse
> than giving you a warning that turns out to be 5 seconds to short to save
> _all_ of your work?  Hibernate takes place in a reasonably predictable
> time, saving your work doesn't.
 
> Personally, I never liked klaptopdaemon.

Personally, I'll go with whatever works. klaptopdaemon works here, while 
"Power manager" doesn't; I don't have any attachment to it.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc