Hi Gene, On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Genes MailLists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First off, New arch user here (was with redhat/fedora since about RH3 > or so) - decided to move in this direction ... so far am liking it a lot. Welcome! > (2) One smallish potential problem zone on laptop is the new power > applet - profiles are gone and it is no longer possible to choose a > 'powersave' vs 'performance' via a toggle. This seems to be working as intended (http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.8/plasma.php), so nothing that we should do anything about (if you think it should change it should be taken up with upstream). > If the bug[1] continues where the power applet thinks it is in > battery mode after unplugging A/C, but in fact it is not (screen remains > bright etc) [2] then the old way of 'fixing' it of hand toggling to > performance profile and back to powersave is no longer available (at > least via the power applet). > > So now need a CLI script to avoid battery drain in that case. Seems a > step back. That's an annoying bug (both with CLI and with GUI workarounds imho). If you know where in the stack the problem is (plasma/solid/upower/kernel), please file bug upstream. If not, file a bug at bugs.archlinux.org and we'll try to figure it out :) > There is a toggle to 'turn off power management - useful for > presentations on battery I suppose ... tho when I tried it earlier on > battery it did not seem to restore performance mode for me ... I need to > investigate that further tho'. If it persists, please file bug :-) Cheers, Tom
