On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:53:53PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Sven Luther said > > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 4. Juli 2004 06:23 schrieb Sean Schertell: > > > > I think pbuttonsd obsoletes pmud -- because it also provides power mgmt > > > > including sleep/wake, etc. > > > > > > Thats correct. > > > > > > In fact if pbbuttonsd is forced to work in cooperative mode (which is > > > still > > > possible but not recommended) pbbuttonsd take only limited control over > > > the > > > powermanagement functions because pmud doesn't care about other programs > > > which may do a better job. In this case pbbuttonsd step back to keep > > > systems > > > stability. A lot of nice functions have to disabled by pbbuttonsd because > > > pmud beside others claims the cover control and power emergency control. > > > > I think pbutton removes the nice gnome applet that is based on pmud > > though. Is there a similar gnome applet for pbuttons ? > > Once I load the apm_emu module, the gnome battery applet thing works > fine for me: AC status and the coloured battery/percent-o-meter show > just what they should. Well, except the 'suspend' option doesn't work > ;-)
Well, but apt-get install pbuttonsd or whatever it is called wants to remove it, so there is something more of integration needed. Friendly, Sven Luther