Auto suspend /Hibernate

venky80 · 2008-06-23 14:11:31

I am using pm-utils and am able to suspend to disk and ram properly.
Now I want to suspend or hibernate automatically based on inactivity and battery condition of my laptop.
Are there any scripts to do it? I am using KDEMOD4 and there is no power management program yet which works like klaptop or kpowersave, I like the scripts anyway.
Thanks

Misfit138 · 2008-06-23 15:05:18

Try laptop-mode-tools.

venky80 · 2008-06-23 16:16:08

I have that installed, can you tell me the specific setting in the configuration, which I have to turn one.
I mean the conf file

firecat53 · 2008-11-26 03:35:30

Somewhat old thread, but still unanswered....laptop-mode-tools will get the auto suspend/hibernate on low battery, but I still can't find anything (other than the gnome power management tools -- using lxde/openbox so I'd rather not ) that will trigger an event after X min of inactivity. Xscreensaver has options for the display, but not actually suspending the machine (at least not that I found).

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Scott

Last edited by firecat53 (2008-11-26 03:36:35)

thayer · 2008-11-26 04:53:28

firecat53 wrote:

Somewhat old thread, but still unanswered....laptop-mode-tools will get the auto suspend/hibernate on low battery, but I still can't find anything (other than the gnome power management tools -- using lxde/openbox so I'd rather not ) that will trigger an event after X min of inactivity. Xscreensaver has options for the display, but not actually suspending the machine (at least not that I found).
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Scott

xautolock. It's available in the AUR and is intended to run a screen lock program such as slock, but realistically it can execute anything based on a period of inactivity in X. Hope this helps

firecat53 · 2008-11-26 07:44:42

[SOLVED] Thanks! Scott

Profjim · 2008-11-27 00:07:37

There's a nice package I've been using from Debian, which sounds to do the same thing, but doesn't require X to be running. It's called sleepd. I just uploaded to AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21830.

firecat53 · 2008-11-27 17:56:42

Well, how about ramping up the complexity a bit: would there be an easy way to adjust the above methods to NOT trigger the auto suspend if either there was music playing or there was a backup (rsync) in progress? I guess having a script for the -killer flag in xautolock that just checked if rsync was running (ps -e | grep rsync) would take care of that, but how would you check if there was music playing (rather than just checking that the player was opened)? I don't see a command line switch for amarok or mpd/mpc that seems particularly helpful.

Ideas?

Thanks,
Scott

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#1 2008-06-23 14:11:31

Auto suspend /Hibernate

#2 2008-06-23 15:05:18

Re: Auto suspend /Hibernate

#3 2008-06-23 16:16:08

Re: Auto suspend /Hibernate

#4 2008-11-26 03:35:30

Re: Auto suspend /Hibernate

#5 2008-11-26 04:53:28

Re: Auto suspend /Hibernate

#6 2008-11-26 07:44:42

Re: Auto suspend /Hibernate

#7 2008-11-27 00:07:37

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#8 2008-11-27 17:56:42

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