On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 17:05 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > Things like hal / gnome-power-manager right now works well for the core > > distribution (some day we'll even get rid of acpid) so I'm not sure why > > acpitool (which admittedly may be useful for admins / expert users with > > special needs) can't stay in Fedora Extras? > > It can stay in Extras, it is just a proposition. But it may be interesting > to have a command line acpi client, even for non-experts, but for those > who have a basic use of the command line. Using an abstraction layer with > hal seems better, but is there a command line interface to that abstraction > layer? Depends what you want to do. With a few lines of python you can listen for events for the battery, and ac_adapter, as well as set the brightness of your LCD panel. Or you can install gnome power manager and have all this done for you, so it "just works" -- or it it unsuitable for your needs? Richard (g-p-m author..) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
