GNOME Power Manager 0.2.6 released
Submitted by hughsie on Sat, 2005-10-01 13:23.
GNOME System Tools
GNOME Power Manager is a session daemon that takes care of power management.
GNOME Power Manager uses information provided by HAL to display icons and handle system and user actions in a GNOME session. Authorised users can set policy and change preferences.
Latest Version: 0.2.6:
- GNOME Screensaver support runtime detection has been improved (no timeouts now, and console messages supressed)
- Fixed lots of 64bit warnings thanks to Rodrigo Moya
- GNOME Power Manager is now in Fedora Core Rawhide!
- The screen now dims gently (rather than a big brightness change) when changing brightness states.
- We now support ONLY the new SetBrightness HAL API in HAL CVS. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.hal/3280 You will have to be using HAL CVS for brightness changing to work.
- We now do not require libhal as all communication to hald is done through the DBUS glib bindings.
- All source files now have lots of asserts that should make any code logic errors easy to spot. Please report any regressions.
- Thanks to Robert Love, we now daemonize when being run. Use --no-daemonise to disable this.
- A new "About" box that follows the GNOME HIG...
- A new "Information" tab that tells you a bit about your computers' power management capability. This is very young and will have much more information in the future about batteries, UPS's etc. Help welcome.
- Lots of fixes and improvements to the core code, with thanks to Theetjuh and Myk Melez for testing the code so well.
- GNOME Power Manager now notifies you your battery is low *and* how much time you have remaining. This fixes a regression from 0.2.2.
- Working with GNOME Screensaver, we now work out the idle time so we can suspend or hibernate in a period of keyboard and mouse in-activity. The load value is also computed, so we can avoid sleeping when CPU intensive programs are left running, e.g. kernel compiles or simulations.