> > 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). Thanks a lot! I'll do my best, for example by copying the link again: Brightness, hot keys, multimedia keys, resume and suspend solutions for laptops: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/ As far as I can tell if something is advertised on mailing lists it will never be invisible to google since they are mirrored to so many sites. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
