Comments on: gnome-power-manager and processor wakeups

By: Abbas K

Abbas K — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:21:12 +0000

I just hope if it is put into gsm that it is toggleable and not shown in the default config. would be a nice plus for developers.

By: bash

bash — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:38:36 +0000

Now if someone would make a GUI like that for nethogs as well and integrate it with gnome-system-monitor I would be completly happy.

By: William Lovaton

William Lovaton — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:17:35 +0000

Richard, this is great. I always wanted something like this since powertop came out.

I have just a little suggestion: Develop a panel applet that show the wake ups with the same colors as powertop does and may be the actual number: Red when it’s too high, yellow when it’s normal and green when it’s very low.

Great work!.

By: hughsie

hughsie — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:12:06 +0000

Mathias, as soon as you do short term hacky workarounds, people expect the functionality to be there in future releases. It’s as much work doing things properly in the kernel as bodging things in a GUI. Out of interest, what suggestion in powertop causes the biggest drop in power consumption?

By: Mathias Hasselmann

Mathias Hasselmann — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:17:09 +0000

> We are not going to offer the suggestions like powertop —
> i would prefer to just fix the kernel drivers and make all this stuff “just work”.

Short term it still makes sense to provide suggestions: Without applying any powertop suggestions my notebook runs on batteries for only 2 hours, after applying the suggestions I get up to 5.5 hours. Quite a difference, I’d say.

By: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:37:18 +0000

Very nice. And I agree with you wrt the suggestions

By: hughsie

hughsie — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:27:44 +0000

We are not going to offer the suggestions like powertop — i would prefer to just fix the kernel drivers and make all this stuff “just work”.

By: Bertrand

Bertrand — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:22:12 +0000

I think that this is the part I like the most in modern Linux systems. GUIs for everything. It’s about time to have tools like this one if you want to call yourself a “modern operating system”.

By: Johan

Johan — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:33:10 +0000

I agree with Nathan. It would be great if this could have something similar to the powertop powersaving suggestions, but with persistence. Presumably by poking at g-p-m settings/profiles.

By: Nathan Y

Nathan Y — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:32:27 +0000

My biggest wish is a way to “package” actions I apply in powertop; why do I have to press “S”, “K”, etc every time to enable USB suspend, kill something or other, etc. I’d like to say “you know, do this every time I go on battery” (or present me with a notification popup and ask if I’d like to.