On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:33 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:15:29 -0600 > "Balaji Ravindran" <fedora-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > i noticed if my laptop's battery runs out, the computer abruptly shuts > > down., but i felt it should actually save the current state, before > > the computer suspends or dies out of battery power. > > Right-click on gnome-power-manager's icon, Preferences, "On Battery > Power", "When battery power is critically low:". Choose Suspend or > Hibernate. Ahhh, I'd set that to 'hibernate'. Suspend still uses power and when your battery is critically low, you might only get a short amount of time before the battery dies anyway. hibernate on the other hand will get you back to where you were (faster than rebooting) and it doesn't use power. R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list