On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> On 27/07/16 14:33, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> > That's nice they make cooking laptops in backpacks a low priority. At least >> > it's still on IRC! >> >> Default behavior should be to suspend. >> The problem is removing the option from the user. > > The option is still there in gnome-tweak-tool, isn't it? I don't think we should > show options for the users to shoot themselves in the foot. > >> > (the right way to fix this would be to get information on how connected >> > standby >> > works on Intel machines, and implement that, not holding my breath though) >> >> The solution should not be H/W dependent. >> I have the same laptop since 2012 and I do not have light sensors for >> example. Should I not have the option to set this manually? > > As I mentioned earlier, there are interfaces available to make this work if you > choose to have it behave like that. But you're talking about brightness when > this section of the mail is specifically about not suspending when closing the lid. > > Connected standby would be the correct fix, and is available on machines from > about 2012: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstantGo > and still not available to Linux: > http://lwn.net/Articles/580451/ Is it not available on Linux because someone has to poke it with a stick to get it to work? i.e. Intel doesn't document it or supply any open source code to leverage it? Or is it just a resources issue? Or all of the above? -- Chris Murphy -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
