Laptop Power Manager & Permanent Terminal

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Rhomnousia
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Laptop Power Manager & Permanent Terminal

Post by Rhomnousia »

I've been customizing my Salix OS core install for a few days now and am quite pleased with the performance and stability on my laptop. I'm just looking for two starting points and/or tips.

The first, does anyone have any recommendations on a useful power-manager for my laptop? I get pretty good battery life (4ish hours) considering my CPU is full throttle (i5, 4gb memory). Not that it really matters all that much, but i'm using fluxbox. Hopefully something simple in design, and maybe power saving options?

The second, i'd like to have a terminal embedded into the "desktop" on a specific work space. Any suggestions on where to start searching for information? A lot of what I find seems fairly scattered and since most of what I do is in the terminal it would be nice to just have that environment set up and ready to go on start-up. Edit* I'm assuming this is done in ~/.fluxbox/apps, if this is correct then it's not a problem and I can do it.

If i'm asking for too much, just call me an asshole and i'll be on my way. :D Thanks for any tips and/or advice.
Shador
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Re: Laptop Power Manager & Permanent Terminal

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Rhomnousia wrote: The first, does anyone have any recommendations on a useful power-manager for my laptop? I get pretty good battery life (4ish hours) considering my CPU is full throttle (i5, 4gb memory). Not that it really matters all that much, but i'm using fluxbox. Hopefully something simple in design, and maybe power saving options?
What about xfce4-power-manager? It pulls in some xfce deps, but I've not seen anything comparable unless looking at gnome or kde.

Apart from that some tweaking can be done dependent on the system state. pm-utils offers with pm-powersave a little functionality. An alternative is laptop-mode, but it takes quite some effort to configure for ones needs. Also have a look here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/La ... Management
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