On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 21:33 +0200, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: > lauantai, 25. helmikuuta 2012 21:26:51 Mantas M. kirjoitti: > > The actions upon lid closing are part of GNOME's settings. In GNOME 3.1, > > power management is done by the "power" plugin of gnome-settings-daemon. > > Sure in Gnome, but we are talking about power-management outside Gnome here, > which DOES work without any Gnome stuff (Haters, substitute word stuff with > 'crap') > > ^_^ On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 19:07 +0000, Andrea Crotti wrote: > I would like to move away from Gnome [snip] > So the question is, what is gnome magically firing up that other > window managers don't? [snip] The OP asked for what GNOME does to fulfill his needs. My interpretation of the original post is, that the OP decided to use a WM without the DE GNOME, so you are talking about what he has experienced with GNOME and what he should adopt if he moves away from GNOME. You're talking about power-management done by GNOME too. ;)