FC15 and GNOME3

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 26 16:49:39 UTC 2011


On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>
> I read in a non-Fedora list that GNOME3 has dropped the ability to do power
> management, and that all laptops will suspend when the cover is closed, like it
> or not. Hopefully that's just a users who doesn't know how to do config, but
> some feedback would be helpful, that behavior would be a total show stopper.
>
> It's desirable in many cases to turn off the display and lock, but in business
> use the computer is likely to be doing something useful the users needs to continue.

AFAIK, changing the laptop-cover closing behavior won't be possible
through the GUI but will be possible though gconf or whatever G3's
equivalent is, if it's different.


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