On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 19:04 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Whether or not my battery is charging depends on whether it's getting
> AC power. If it's on AC power, it charges. When the battery is full it
> stops charging, and from that point it runs on AC power, without
> taking the juice from the
Matthew Saltzman writes:
Not always. If you allow the battery to drain just a percent or two and
plug it back in, it won't charge. If you drain it a bit more, it will.
The Thinkpad battery manager from Lenovo takes that a step further,
I think this battery manager thingy is some custom job f
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 19:04 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman writes:
>
> > On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 20:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> On 05/23/2010 08:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >> > Right now, Gnome shows an alert bubble when I have somewhere between
> >> > 15 and 20 min
Matthew Saltzman writes:
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 20:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 05/23/2010 08:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Right now, Gnome shows an alert bubble when I have somewhere between
> 15 and 20 minutes remaining on battery power (varies). When there's a
> couple of minutes lef
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 20:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/23/2010 08:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Right now, Gnome shows an alert bubble when I have somewhere between
> > 15 and 20 minutes remaining on battery power (varies). When there's a
> > couple of minutes left, an automatic shut
On 05/23/2010 08:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Right now, Gnome shows an alert bubble when I have somewhere between
> 15 and 20 minutes remaining on battery power (varies). When there's a
> couple of minutes left, an automatic shutdown gets initiated.
>
> I would like to adjust the thresholds. I
Right now, Gnome shows an alert bubble when I have somewhere between 15 and
20 minutes remaining on battery power (varies). When there's a couple of
minutes left, an automatic shutdown gets initiated.
I would like to adjust the thresholds. I want to be alerted when I have
about 30 minutes of p
