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\mainpage KPowersave - a KDE Kickerapplet/fontend for Powermanagement
\section intro_sec Introduction
KPowersave provides battery monitoring and suspend/standby triggers.
It is based on HAL and D-Bus and therefore supports APM, ACPI and PMU.
Together with the powersave package (to provide powermanagement if KPowersave
is not running) and the YaST Powermanagement module it is the preferred package
that should be used for battery monitoring and control of power management
related tasks.
KPowersave is currently, as we know, available/running for/on these distributions:
\li SUSE Linux: defaultly on distribution
- openSUSE 10.2: from the available releases and via sourceforge
- SUSE 10.1/SLED10: from the available releases and updates (for KPowersave 0.6.x)
- SUSE 10.0: from
sourceforge.net
- SUSE 9.3 and 9.2: last available version 0.4.5 from:
sourceforge.net
\li Debian: available in unstable and testing tree via 'apt-get install kpowersave'
\li Ubuntu/Kubuntu:
- for Dapper Drake from universe repository
- for 'Breezy Badger' from
http://www.teco.edu/~biebl/ubuntu (Thanks to Michael Biebl)
\li Fedora Core 4 and 5: from
sourceforge.net
\li Mandriva 2006.1: from
sourceforge.net
\li ALT Linux: KPowersave v0.4.5 defaultly on distribution
\li Pardus: KPowersave default on the distribution
\li Gentoo, Slackware and other: www.kde-apps.org
\section using_sec Using kpowersave
This Applet work under KDE (and also GNOME).
To use kpowersave, you need the following programms/packages:
- linux kernel 2.6.x (Homepage)
- HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) >= 0.5.8.1 (Homepage)
- D-Bus >= >= 0.6.x (recommended >= 0.9.x) (Homepage)
Dependig on some features you maybe need also:
- PolicyKit (git repository)
You can maybe find more information in the README file in the base dir of the project.
\section contact_sec Contact
You can contact us via the project website(s), Mailinglists and for bugs also via several bugzilla
systems:
\subsection contact_web_sec Websites
\li KPowersave@freshmeat.net
\li KPowersave@kde-apps.org
\li Powersave@sourceforge.net
\li Powersave@forge.novell.com
\subsection contact_ML_sec Mailing Lists
\li powersave-users@forge.novell.com
\li powersave-devel@forge.novell.com
\subsection contact_Bugzilla_sec Report Bugs
Websites:
\li SUSE Linux / openSUSE
\li SLED/SLES
\li Debian
\li (K)Ubuntu
\li Mandriva
\li RedHat/Fedora
\li ALT Linux
\li Pardus
You can also report Bugs to the powersave-users mailing list:
\li powersave-users@forge.novell.com
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