Do you have any evidence that Compiz increases power consumption? All the tests that I've seen (although I haven't seen many - «http://www .mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01776.html» is one) suggest that the difference in power consumption between Metacity & Compiz is extremely small (in that test, 0.1W unless bluetooth or wifi were on, in which case there was no measurable difference).
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. ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris Halse Rogers (raof) Status: New => Incomplete -- Feature Request for Hardy: Having Desktop Effects enabled with power, but disabled when running off the battery (for laptop users) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173235 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs