My first guess is that it is something buried in gconf-editor (this is like regedit for GNOME, a really bad IMO). Failing that, what I have done is set some weird value, in this case a random 3 digit number, and then gone grepping through the file system looking for that number.
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Craig McLean <craigmcl...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Hello. > > I'm poking around in Ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition installed on a laptop > (Tecra M5). In System->Preferences->Power Management there is an option to > spin down the hard disks when possible. I'd like to know what text file > gets modified behind the scenes when you flip that option. I suspected that > it was /etc/hdparm.conf however I'm pretty sure that isn't true. I've > flipped the option on and off and hdparm.conf doesn't get touched. > > The Power Management Preferences window has tabs for "On AC Power" and "On > Battery Power" so I suspect there is some configuration mechanism been used > but I haven't discovered it yet. > > Does anybody know? > > Craig. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
