[ydl-gen] sleep / standby -- addenda

[matt]

right.. i was abit confused by the first response.

but no there are no power management controls for desktops.  is it just 
assumed that a user won't want to sleep a linux box?  that's not very 
usefull for using it as a workstation.

m.

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Christopher Murtagh wrote:

> 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
>