Written by sandys the 27 Feb 10 at 10:54.

gnome-power-manager already has information about the battery in your system. However, charging is always-on.

Instead power-manager should charge only according to rules (similar to Microsoft ACPI-compliant control method battery tool)

e.g. bug528543 in gnome-power-manager

gnome-power-manager already has information about the battery in your system. However, charging is always-on. Instead power-manager should charge only according to rules (similar to Microsoft ACPI-compliant control method battery tool) e.g. bug528543 in gnome-power-manager

Written by specialcowboy the 14 Mar 10 at 08:54.

I am relatively new to Ubuntu and I understand that in Lucid there are plans or already an implementation for better power management. As I haven't seen the alphas myself I thought I would suggest a few things. Sorry if these are already being implemented and this is redundant. This site: http://salcher.posterous.com/?tag=ubuntu suggests a few ways to optimize batter life using Powertop and manually configuring files in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/. I think it would be great if there was a GUI front end for this that allowed adjusting of the settings and creating of various profiles (rather than editing .conf files directly). Similar to the Power Management functionality included on Acer laptops (ie clocking down the processor, disabling card buses, USB, ethernet, wireless, etc.).

I am relatively new to Ubuntu and I understand that in Lucid there are plans or already an implementation for better power management. As I haven't seen the alphas myself I thought I would suggest a few things. Sorry if these are already being implemented and this is redundant. This site: http://salcher.posterous.com/?tag=ubuntu suggests a few ways to optimize batter life using Powertop and manually configuring files in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/. I think it would be great if there was a GUI front end for this that allowed adjusting of the settings and creating of various profiles (rather than editing .conf files directly). Similar to the Power Management functionality included on Acer laptops (ie clocking down the processor, disabling card buses, USB, ethernet, wireless, etc.).

Written by mulenmar the 18 Mar 10 at 04:52.

Something as tied to hardware as controlling when the battery charges and when it cuts off should be built into the Linux kernel itself, not tied to a desktop enviroment!

Something as tied to hardware as controlling when the battery charges and when it cuts off should be built into the Linux kernel itself, not tied to a desktop enviroment!