On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Rodney McDonell <pod...@gmail.com> wrote: > After installing powertop, i noticed that many applications, > particularly X applications, do a lot of stuff when I’m not using them. Thanks a lot for the patch. I was thinking about having similar function but never make it to produce a patch.
> Firefox was a big one - even when the only page it had open was it's Indeed. There are also some discussions about solutions not just the CPU wake-ups but the huge memory usage of tab browsing. For example this bugzilla entry: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675539 "to unload tab content when not using for long". Obviously you patch is surely an easy and efficient way to reduce CPU wake-ups. Not to mention it can stop flash ads sucking up battery charges for doing nothing. > I'm finding it hard to get any feed back on this as blackbox seems to > not attract many people these days and development has essentially stalled. I'm not using blackbox, but your patch makes me to consider to give it a try. ;) Maybe a similar tool like "xkill" to pause/resume an X-window client with one click would be more universal? :) It's really nice if think kind of "minimize to pause when using battery" could be implemented in xfce, gnome and KDE. (I'm shameless request features w/o contributing. :) ) -- Best regards, Yuan Chao _______________________________________________ Power mailing list Power@bughost.org https://bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
