Mike
McBride
21/10/2000
1.00.00
KDE
KControl
Laptop
Power

# Laptop Power Control

The laptop modules require the correct installation of the apm modules. For more information see the section entitled Laptop Information.

## Introduction

This tab provides a screensaver-style interface to the APM suspend/standby modes. It allows you to configure different wait times and/or actions depending on whether or not your laptop's plugged into the wall. It's intended to be used in addition to the existing KDE screensavers - you could for example disable suspend/standby when plugged in to the wall, but enable suspend with a shorter time than your normal screensaver kicks in while running on batteries.

Standby mode seems to do different things on different laptops - in particular on some it may not stay in standby mode and your laptop may be continually waking/sleeping if you leave it in this mode.

## Use

This panel configures the power-down feature of your laptop. It works as a sort of extreme screen saver.

You can configure different timeouts and behaviors depending one whether your computer is plugged in or running on battery power.

For both the "Powered" and "Not Powered", you should select one of the following options:

- Standby - Puts your laptop into standby state

- Suspend - Puts your laptop into suspend state

- Off - Nothing happens at the specified time.

Below that, is a text box labled "Wait for". Enter the time in minutes, that your computer should remain unused, before the laptop is powered down.

## Section Author

This section written by Paul Campbell paul@taniwha.com

Converted to Docbook by Mike McBride mpmcbride7@yahoo.com