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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Brandon Hale
  • Date: 2006-08-20 21:36:11 UTC
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  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20060820213611-zyx2gp0n6nzr3k1v
Tags: 2.15.92-0ubuntu1
* New upstream release
   - Fix a double free in the new smartcard code. (William Jon McCann) #350436
   - Work round a compiler bug which caused compilation to fail when using a
     high optimising setting. (Ed Catmur) #352104.
   - Beep to warn if the suspend or hibernate failed. #346542
   - Fix up the desktop files with the version number.
   - Change the spelling of loose to lose throughout the project. (Bruce Cowan)
   - Add a copy of the 24x24 icons instead of generating them at install time.
     Doing clever tricks with imagemagick didn't work very well. #350321
   - Add a timed exit option to the daemon (--timed-exit). #350334

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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Chapter 5. Frequently Asked Questions</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="docbook.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.69.1"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="GNOME Power Manager 2.15.90 Documentation"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="GNOME Power Manager 2.15.90 Documentation"><link rel="prev" href="sleep-names.html" title="Chapter 4. Sleep Names"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 5. Frequently Asked Questions</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sleep-names.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> </td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="faq"></a>Chapter 5. Frequently Asked Questions</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="faq.html#faq-intro">Past entries</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="faq.html#faq-longer-suspend">
 
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Chapter 4. Frequently Asked Questions</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="docbook.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.69.1"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="GNOME Power Manager 2.15.92 Documentation"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="GNOME Power Manager 2.15.92 Documentation"><link rel="prev" href="sleep-names.html" title="Chapter 3. Sleep Names"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 4. Frequently Asked Questions</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sleep-names.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> </td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="faq"></a>Chapter 4. Frequently Asked Questions</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="faq.html#faq-intro">Past entries</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="faq.html#faq-dpms-broken-monitor">
 
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        My monitor is broken and treats DPMS standby and off states as
 
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      </a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="faq.html#faq-autostart">Why doesn't GNOME Power manager autostart?</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="faq.html#faq-custom-script">Where do I put my custom suspend/shutdown/hibernate script?</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="faq-intro"></a>Past entries</h2></div></div></div><p>
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      Please read through these common questions and answers before emailing
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      the mailing list.
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        You have to change the dpms suspend mode gnome-power-manager uses.
 
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        Open gconf-editor, and then change the keys 
 
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        <code class="literal">/apps/gnome-power-manager/ac_dpms_sleep_method</code> and
 
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        Because gnome-power-manager uses HAL to toggle bits in the hardware,
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        you need to put your custom instructions in
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        <code class="literal">/prefix/share/hal/scripts/system/hal-system-power-*</code>
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