Re: Sony Vaio related gnome components

Hi gnomers!

I have a couple of questions that are all related to laptop
functionality more specifically to a Sony Vaio FZ 240 e/b.
Gnome has
lots of useful features and/or components which are working
very well
with my laptop and some others are working not so well.
Normally I
don't use gnome at all, only the sawfish window manager, but
since
gnome does a couple of things well I would like to take those
components.

1. This vaio model has volume control buttons on the keyboard
and when
they are pressed a nice window appears with visual feed back
to the
user displaying a volume scale and the current value. The
buttons
actually work I can use them to set the volume level. Which
gnome
component is responsible for these? These are 2 issues, one is
the
fact that the buttons work and the second is the visual
feedback.

2. The gnome menu has menu items for hibernation and sleep.
What do
these menu items actually invoke?

3. Gnome has power management features, there are menu items
for
setting what should happen when the power is low. Apparently
there is
the option for shutting down the machine securely if the power
is
critically low but this doesn't work. The machine keeps being
turned
on until the battery is totally flat at which point it
switches off.
Again, which gnome component is responsible for making this
work? And
what code gets really executed?

4. Screen brightness. There is a gnome applet as well as some
menu
items for controlling the screen brightness. This also doesn't
work.
The applet, for example, ideally should have access to the
brightness
but through what means? In other words in an ideal situation
when this
feature worked, what is the mechanism through which the screen
brightness is set?

So what I would like to know for each of these components if
it was
easy to use them without running gnome. This is actually what
I like
in gnome, I don't have to run the whole thing usually, only
the parts
which I find useful.

Cheers,
Daniel



Wow! I never expected so much help from this friendly community! :)

There
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/

Simos

p.s. that page is sort of invisible in google. if you want to give
something back to the community, teach google to find it (add to cache,
etc).

Thanks a lot! I'll do my best, for example by copying the link again:

Brightness, hot keys, multimedia keys, resume and suspend solutions
for laptops: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/

As far as I can tell if something is advertised on mailing lists it
will never be invisible to google since they are mirrored to so many
sites.

Cheers,
Daniel
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