Mark Knecht posted on Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:02:51 -0700 as excerpted: > In the case of my laptop with the 'Do Nothing' setting in KDE the screen > automatically goes black when the lid is almost closed. I put my head on > the desk and slowly close the lid. At about 3/4" open the screen goes > black and power drops from 48.8 Watts to 40.2 Watts. (Using Kill-a-Watt > to measure.)
I haven't measured actual power usage (tho it's noticeable in battery-life- projections), but that's the same behavior I get (and want) here, too. It's ideal for me. I'd hate the new mandatory-suspend-on-lid-close functionality gnome-3 is rumored to have, both because a major intended use of this thing (gen-1.5 netbook) is as an MP3-player (it's one of the first with a standard SATA interfaced 100+ gig drive, with 100+ gigs a must for a good mp3 player here, plus it has the flexibility of a full if low-powered computer), and so I can ssh to it with the lid closed, as you mention. Plus display-off-on-lid-close is another node on the power flexibility line that fits in well between suspend2ram and normal dimmed-but-on-display laptop-mode usage. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
