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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:18:48 -0500
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0
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Alessandro Di Marco wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this is a new 2.6.20 module implementing a user inactivity trigger. Basically
> it acts as an event sniffer, issuing an ACPI event when no user activity is
> detected for more than a certain amount of time. This event can be successively
> grabbed and managed by an user-level daemon such as acpid, blanking the screen,
> dimming the lcd-panel light ? la mac, etc...

Any idea how much power this saves? And for the vast rest of us who do 
run X, this seems to parallel the work of a well-tuned screensaver.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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