Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:18:48 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0 |
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Alessandro Di Marco wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a new 2.6.20 module implementing a user inactivity trigger. Basically > it acts as an event sniffer, issuing an ACPI event when no user activity is > detected for more than a certain amount of time. This event can be successively > grabbed and managed by an user-level daemon such as acpid, blanking the screen, > dimming the lcd-panel light à la mac, etc...
Any idea how much power this saves? And for the vast rest of us who do run X, this seems to parallel the work of a well-tuned screensaver.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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