Feature Request for Hardy: Having Desktop Effects enabled with power, but disabled when running off the battery (for laptop users)
Bug #173235 reported by
SleepZ
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compiz (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Wishlist
|
Chris Halse Rogers | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: compiz
I would like to see this option enabled for Hardy if possible. The topic pretty much sums it up. What I would like is to be able to enable desktop effects for my laptop, but if I disconnect the power cable I obviously want to conserve battery usage so it would be nice if the window manager would default back to metacity. Then if I regained power it should start up compiz again. I think this would be a nice option for us laptop users.
I tried to achieve this myself, but it didn't quite work. Here's the discussion thread for this idea:
http://
Revision history for this message
| Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in compiz: | |
| assignee: | nobody → raof |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Changed in compiz: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Won't Fix |
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Do you have any evidence that Compiz increases power consumption? All the tests that I've seen (although I haven't seen many - «http://<email address hidden>
There may be particular compiz plugins which increase power consumption. If we can locate these (powertop may be useful here), then we could easily provide a system to selectively disable these plugins when on battery.