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Re: pmud & pbbuttonsd confilct in sarge-testing ?



On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Sven Luther said
> On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 4. Juli 2004 06:23 schrieb Sean Schertell:
> > > I think pbuttonsd obsoletes pmud -- because it also provides power mgmt
> > > including sleep/wake, etc.
> > 
> > Thats correct.
> > 
> > In fact if pbbuttonsd is forced to work in cooperative mode (which is still 
> > possible but not recommended) pbbuttonsd take only limited control over the 
> > powermanagement functions because pmud doesn't care about other programs 
> > which may do a better job. In this case pbbuttonsd step back to keep systems 
> > stability. A lot of nice functions have to disabled by pbbuttonsd because 
> > pmud beside others claims the cover control and power emergency control.
> 
> I think pbutton removes the nice gnome applet that is based on pmud
> though. Is there a similar gnome applet for pbuttons ?

Once I load the apm_emu module, the gnome battery applet thing works
fine for me: AC status and the coloured battery/percent-o-meter show
just what they should.  Well, except the 'suspend' option doesn't work
;-)

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