On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 01:13 -0800, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > On Dec 8, 2007 5:48 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > Hi gnomers! > > I have a couple of questions that are all related to laptop > functionality more specifically to a Sony Vaio FZ 240 e/b. > Gnome has > lots of useful features and/or components which are working > very well > with my laptop and some others are working not so well. > Normally I > don't use gnome at all, only the sawfish window manager, but > since > gnome does a couple of things well I would like to take those > components. > > 1. This vaio model has volume control buttons on the keyboard > and when > they are pressed a nice window appears with visual feed back > to the > user displaying a volume scale and the current value. The > buttons > actually work I can use them to set the volume level. Which > gnome > component is responsible for these? These are 2 issues, one is > the > fact that the buttons work and the second is the visual > feedback. > > 2. The gnome menu has menu items for hibernation and sleep. > What do > these menu items actually invoke? > > 3. Gnome has power management features, there are menu items > for > setting what should happen when the power is low. Apparently > there is > the option for shutting down the machine securely if the power > is > critically low but this doesn't work. The machine keeps being > turned > on until the battery is totally flat at which point it > switches off. > Again, which gnome component is responsible for making this > work? And > what code gets really executed? > > 4. Screen brightness. There is a gnome applet as well as some > menu > items for controlling the screen brightness. This also doesn't > work. > The applet, for example, ideally should have access to the > brightness > but through what means? In other words in an ideal situation > when this > feature worked, what is the mechanism through which the screen > brightness is set? > > So what I would like to know for each of these components if > it was > easy to use them without running gnome. This is actually what > I like > in gnome, I don't have to run the whole thing usually, only > the parts > which I find useful. > > Cheers, > Daniel > > > > Wow! I never expected so much help from this friendly community! :) There http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/ Simos p.s. that page is sort of invisible in google. if you want to give something back to the community, teach google to find it (add to cache, etc). _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
