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GNOME Power Manager

GNOME Power Manager is a session daemon for the GNOME desktop environment that makes it easy to manage your laptop or desktop system.

These pages are meant to help you find information about GNOME Power Manager.

GNOME Power Manager is written in C, and has additional dependencies of:

• UPower 0.9.1
• DBus 0.61
• libnotify 0.4.2

Power Management Introduction

Power management is an essential job on portable computers, and becoming more important on todays high-powered desktops. It uses many complex (and sometimes experimental) parts of the system - each of which are slightly different, and may contain quirks to work around. The power management policy could be influenced and tweaked by an huge number of options, and each new laptop model brings more possibilities and options. This should all work in the background without even being noticed by the user.

For example modern machines allow a many options to reduce power consumption:

• Reduce CPU frequency
• Switch off the harddrive if not needed
• Dim the display when the machine is idle

And they support various actions to match users needs:

• Sleep to RAM (Suspend)
• Sleep to Disk (Hibernate)
• Shutdown
• Blank screen

GNOME Power Manager is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Downloads

GNOME Power Manager should come bundled with most modern distributions.

The latest source releases can always be found at the GNOME ftp site.

Make sure to get latest release of UPower, the service that GNOME Power Manager depends on.

Feedback

Bugs should be reported to the GNOME Bug Tracking System.

Please read the FAQ and the bug reporting guidelines before creating a new bug.

You can get in touch with developers and other users by sending a mail to the Power Manager mailing list or search the [archives].