Comments on: Laptop Suspend, Status

By: James Cape

James Cape — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:36:36 +0000

Darwin S: Yeah, I disabled the plugin as soon as I saw the launchpad report on it.

tm: The discovery was made in Jaunty; you need to be playing an internet radio stream that has been disconnected. I think RB is preventing the laptop from suspending until the stream times out, but some screwiness is preventing the laptop from sleeping *after* that. (for the immediate fix, it may be a missing Uninhibit() in the RB plugin)

By: tm

tm — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:51:11 +0000

Hmm about that cooking — i wonder if anything has changed in recent versions of power manager or if it is a tweak of ubuntu, but on jaunty the duo seems to respect user input and suspends also when music is playing, and torrents are downloading.

I’ve cooked contents of my bag in couple of occasions and now when suspending computer, I always look on the snooze light for good ten seconds in fear that it doesn’t come to life or maybe decides not to suspend — quite a habit one can develop

By: Jon McCann

Jon McCann — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:19:24 +0000

Ugh. Sorry James. It isn’t supposed to do that. I’ve nearly cooked a laptop too — not a smell you easily forget…

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:42:56 +0000

Speaking of Rhythmbox and evil, how do I make it stop abusing my notification area?

By: Darwin Survivor

Darwin Survivor — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:05:00 +0000

You know you can easily disable the Rhythmbox thing right? I personally hate it as well. When I tell my laptop to shutdown/reboot/logout/suspend/whatever it should do it.

It is one of the plugins, just disable the plugin and all is good.

Note: Transmission (the default bit torrent application) does the same thing, very annoying.