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Acpid and Startup Brightness
On Arch Linux on my laptop, I have acpid control the brightness level based on AC plug events. Plugging in gives me max brightness and running on battery sets it at the minimum.
My problem is that ...
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Return value of current watt consumption on command line
Is there a way to return the current watt consumption on the command line? I have found about the powertop program, but have not seen a way to return the Watt consumption as a value to the command ...
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Suspending laptop fails ~50% of the time
Running ArchLinux and GNOME 3 on a Thinkpad X220.
When I suspend my laptop it goes into sleep mode and the LED ring around the power button fades in and out.
When a suspend fails, the LED ring and ...
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Is it possible to automatically wake from suspend?
Here's my problem:
I have a laptop running Arch that I just keep on at home. It's got a good 4 hour battery life, but sometimes my daughter is playing near where it's kept and ends out pulling the ...
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Battery monitor for LXDE in Arch Linux
I have Arch Linux plus LXDE installed in my laptop. I want to know the status of the battery level. I tried to install batterymon, but got too many errors that I couldn't decipher.
Is there any ...
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Screen fading out on GNOME, without ability to cancel
Sometimes, on my Arch Linux laptop, using GNOME for the desktop, my screen will fade out after a while of non-activity (even if I'm watching a video). This fade out is very slow, and can't be ...
