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Will switching from Gnome to LXDE improve battery life?

I currently have Fedora 14 and the battery life is not so good. I am planning to switch to Fedora 16. Will I get significantly more battery life if I go for the LXDE spin instead of GNOME?
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No gnome-power-manager command but it is installed on arch

I'm running latest Arch, have gnome and fluxbox and my main windows manager is Fluxbox. I wanted to manage my power settings in fluxbox and i added gnome-power-manager in startup but is says there ...
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How can I improve battery life in Fedora 15?

I am seeing a horrible battery life with Fedora 15 (lovelock) with Gnome Shell 3 on my laptop. I keep the screen brightness, back light pretty low. I still get about 1 hr 50 minutes battery life out ...