Power Management Software

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Clever Power Management

Open bugs:

Other questions:

  • Why does the power button (hardware) do nothing? Will it send out

keycodes or some other events in the future?

  • How do you change the backlight brightness from a program (rather than

the keyboard buttons)?

  • How is the brightness level being changed? Some embedded EC? OF? Do we

get a userspace signal/event when the user changes it?

  • DPMS seems not to work. "sleep 1 && xset dpms force off" does nothing.
  • Where are per-session settings meant to be stored? GConf? How much configuration should there be allowed?

Current Priorities:

  • Battery class stuff integrated with HAL.
  • Software control of backlight in HAL.
  • Small session daemon created that exposes a similar DBUS interface to g-p-m.
  • Sugar UI element created for telling how much charge we have left
  • Sugar UI emement created for configuration?