| openSUSE-Dokumentation Chapter 9. Controlling Your Desktop's Power Management with KPowersave / 9.5. Configuring KPowersave | ||||
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 | 9.4. Configuring Notifications | Appendix A. Moving from Windows to Linux |  | |
| openSUSE-Dokumentation Chapter 9. Controlling Your Desktop's Power Management with KPowersave / 9.5. Configuring KPowersave | ||||
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| 9.4. Configuring Notifications | Appendix A. Moving from Windows to Linux | | |
The KPowersave settings dialog comprises two different groups of settings:
Detailed configuration for all power management schemes supported by KPowersave.
Miscellaneous options related to KPowersave's behavior, such as screen locking, auto-suspend, notification and autostart behavior.
Power saving schemes in KPowersave offer controls to:
Enable or disable a screen saver
Enable or disable display power management
Change the brightness of your display to reduce power consumption
Enable or disable auto-suspend of your machine
Enable or disable notifications KPowersave events
You can modify any of the preconfigured schemes, but you cannot delete them or add new ones.
To configure a KPowersave scheme, proceed as follows:
Right-click the panel icon and select +.
Select the scheme you want to modify.
Open the tab and determine whether your scheme requires specific tuning of the screen saver settings. If using your machine in presentation mode, you should consider disabling the screen saver altogether. If you want your display to automatically enter powersaving modes after a certain period of time, activate and enter the number of minutes after which the display should use power management.
If your display hardware supports reducing the brightness for power saving reasons, open the , select and set the brightness value.
If you want your machine to automatically suspend (to disk) after a certain period of time, open the tab, select and determine when the machine should automatically enter suspend. To avoid problems with applications whose state cannot be properly restored when your session is resumed, maintain a blacklist of these applications via . If any of these applications is running, KPowersave does not automatically suspend your desktop.
If you want KPowersave to work quietly, turn of notifications for powersave events by entering the tab and selecting .
Click to apply your settings and leave the configuration dialog.
If you want the screen to be locked before the system enters suspend or standby, activate the control and choose a screen saver. A locked screen might keep unauthorized users off this machine.
If you want your machine to enter suspend after a certain period of idleness, be aware that several applications can cause problems with auto-suspend. Use a black list to keep KPowersave from triggering a suspend action when one or more of the listed applications are running.
To configure notifications, select and proceed as described above. The dialog described here is exactly the same as if you had right-clicked the panel icon and selected .
To configure KPowersave to be automatically started on login, select . If you select , you will not be asked whether KPowersave should be automatically started when you exit a session that had not previously included KPowersave in the list of tasks to be started automatically.
