Hi Richard, this reply comes a "bit" late. I was on vacation back then and given the environment could not experiment that much with computers (which, I'll admit, has it's benefits, too ;-).
On Fri, 30 May 2014, Richard Brown wrote: > GNOME relies heavily on upower, and I suspect the problem lies either > between upower, or in gnome-settings-daemons > interpretation/logic/implementation of what information it's receiving > from upower. : > If you're willing to go for a 'shot in the dark', you might have luck > adding the following repository and running zypper dup (of course, I'd > recommend backups/snapshots, etc, just in case it doesn't work) > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE:/3.12/openSUSE_13.1/ I am running this now and am pleased about the improvements I am seeing. Nothing revolutionary, but network management for wired connections seems improved, some visual improvements (somewhat approaching Android in terms of messages boxes, interestingly), a detail here, a detail there. However, I have not been able to run down batteries with two batteries installed to see whether upower/GNOME now cooperate more nicely, but may get a chance next week. > Is there a reason the system can't hibernate? the default behavior for > critical battery power shortage is hibernate, which, while imperfect > especially in your case, should at least result in work being > maintained. Firefox consumes so much (virtual) memory that my 2GB swap partition that I've had for a couple of years is not sufficient any more, now that my notebook features 8GB of RAM. With the right swap/suspend strategy that should be easily sufficient (I do not have > 2GB of dirty pages), but that's not a GNOME problem. > gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power > critical-battery-action 'nothing' > > This appears to set things the way you want in dconf-editor - > unfortunately my laptop has too long a battery life for me to > confirm it works for some hours yet :) Lovely. That worked like a charm. I have been able to test that back then, and it saved my running system more than once. Thank you so much! Noooow, a curious question: If, after the change above, I run gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power critical-battery-action that shows 'nothing' as expected. In the graphical settings, the Power module shows "When battery power is critical" "Power off", however. Bug or "feature"? Gerald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
