On Dec 8, 2007 5:48 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gnomers! > > I have a couple of questions that are all related to laptop > functionality more specifically to a Sony Vaio FZ 240 e/b. Gnome has > lots of useful features and/or components which are working very well > with my laptop and some others are working not so well. Normally I > don't use gnome at all, only the sawfish window manager, but since > gnome does a couple of things well I would like to take those > components. > > 1. This vaio model has volume control buttons on the keyboard and when > they are pressed a nice window appears with visual feed back to the > user displaying a volume scale and the current value. The buttons > actually work I can use them to set the volume level. Which gnome > component is responsible for these? These are 2 issues, one is the > fact that the buttons work and the second is the visual feedback. > > 2. The gnome menu has menu items for hibernation and sleep. What do > these menu items actually invoke? > > 3. Gnome has power management features, there are menu items for > setting what should happen when the power is low. Apparently there is > the option for shutting down the machine securely if the power is > critically low but this doesn't work. The machine keeps being turned > on until the battery is totally flat at which point it switches off. > Again, which gnome component is responsible for making this work? And > what code gets really executed? > > 4. Screen brightness. There is a gnome applet as well as some menu > items for controlling the screen brightness. This also doesn't work. > The applet, for example, ideally should have access to the brightness > but through what means? In other words in an ideal situation when this > feature worked, what is the mechanism through which the screen > brightness is set? > > So what I would like to know for each of these components if it was > easy to use them without running gnome. This is actually what I like > in gnome, I don't have to run the whole thing usually, only the parts > which I find useful. > > Cheers, > Daniel >
Wow! I never expected so much help from this friendly community! :)
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