Hi Gene, On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Genes MailLists <lists@sapience.com> wrote:
First off, New arch user here (was with redhat/fedora since about RH3 or so) - decided to move in this direction ... so far am liking it a lot.
Welcome!
(2) One smallish potential problem zone on laptop is the new power applet - profiles are gone and it is no longer possible to choose a 'powersave' vs 'performance' via a toggle.
This seems to be working as intended (http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.8/plasma.php), so nothing that we should do anything about (if you think it should change it should be taken up with upstream).
If the bug[1] continues where the power applet thinks it is in battery mode after unplugging A/C, but in fact it is not (screen remains bright etc) [2] then the old way of 'fixing' it of hand toggling to performance profile and back to powersave is no longer available (at least via the power applet).
So now need a CLI script to avoid battery drain in that case. Seems a step back.
That's an annoying bug (both with CLI and with GUI workarounds imho). If you know where in the stack the problem is (plasma/solid/upower/kernel), please file bug upstream. If not, file a bug at bugs.archlinux.org and we'll try to figure it out :)
There is a toggle to 'turn off power management - useful for presentations on battery I suppose ... tho when I tried it earlier on battery it did not seem to restore performance mode for me ... I need to investigate that further tho'.
If it persists, please file bug :-) Cheers, Tom