PowerDevil is a new powersaving daemon for KDE4 (looks like it'll be included in KDE4.2).
There isn't a package available in the intrepid repos yet, but if you wish to try it out here's a short howto for compiling/installing:
1. Grab the tarball from kde-apps:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show...?content=85078
2. Install compiling tool packages and development libraries (if not already installed):
build-essential
cmake
kdelibs5-dev
libplasma-dev
kdebase-workspace-dev
libxss-dev
checkinstall (if you wish to create a .deb package for easy removal with apt)
3. extract the tarball
4. in the extracted directory (powerdevil-0.9.0a)
5.
(notice the backticks [`])
6.
7a.
(answer a few questions, after which checkinstall will create the .deb package and install it)
or
7b.
8. PowerDevil settings can be found in SystemSettings>Advanced>PowerDevilPreferences
9. Restart KDE
Notes:
There is a plasmoid for powerdevil included, but it doesn't seem to be working yet...you can use the default battery monitor for now.
There isn't a package available in the intrepid repos yet, but if you wish to try it out here's a short howto for compiling/installing:
1. Grab the tarball from kde-apps:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show...?content=85078
2. Install compiling tool packages and development libraries (if not already installed):
build-essential
cmake
kdelibs5-dev
libplasma-dev
kdebase-workspace-dev
libxss-dev
checkinstall (if you wish to create a .deb package for easy removal with apt)
3. extract the tarball
4. in the extracted directory (powerdevil-0.9.0a)
Code:
mkdir build && cd build
Code:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..
6.
Code:
make
Code:
sudo checkinstall -D
or
7b.
Code:
sudo make install
9. Restart KDE
Notes:
There is a plasmoid for powerdevil included, but it doesn't seem to be working yet...you can use the default battery monitor for now.