[ydl-gen] sleep / standby -- addenda

[Christopher Murtagh]

On 4/13/06, Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net> wrote:
>Within KDE look for the Control Panel and select Screensaver or you can enter
> within the search area Screensaver and select which screensaver you
> would prefer as well as within what time that screensaver is to be
> activated.

 Actually, the screen saver isn't 'sleeping' the machine, what you
want to look at is the power management tools. Often the screen saver
will be made aware of power management settings, but you usually can't
update them from there. On my laptop, in the Control Centre there's a
section called 'Powerbook Battery' which I imagine is something else
on desktop machines (sorry, out of town and don't have one in front of
me).

> For details regarding the sleep command itself, do:
>
> $ man sleep

 This isn't putting the machine to sleep, this is something a process
does, not at all the same thing. What's closer to what the person had
asked for is apm (man apm), although I don't know if there are
newer/better things for power management, since I've never put a
desktop Linux box to sleep.

Cheers,

Chris