From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Sep 29 12:56:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87CC537B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from syr.edu (syr.edu [128.230.1.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E282643E42 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:56:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from met@uberstats.com) Received: from ox.syr.edu (syru241-188.syr.edu [128.230.241.188]) by syr.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA08235 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:56:48 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Matthew Metnetsky To: FreeBSD Mobile Subject: On the Go with FreeBSD and KDE Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 03:56:47 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200209290356.47851.met@uberstats.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As I'm a college student I'd like to be able to take my laptop with me fr= om=20 class to class. Take notes, play games, etc etc. However, I've got a fe= w=20 questions / problems. =20 1) Is there some sort of 'standby' mode like Windows has so that the com= puter=20 doesn't take as much power, and also is ON. I have at most 10 minutes=20 between classes and really don't want to turn off the laptop just to boot= it=20 up again 10 minutes later. And then repeat this 4 times a day. Any Idea= s? 2) My laptop runs KDE. Whenver I close the top while its running, and t= hen=20 reopen it, it goes on the fritz (i guess would be the best way to say it)= =2E =20 Basically, the middle visual gets cut in half and goes to the top and bot= tom=20 and the middle is just a solid weird color, and the mouse has no 'real'=20 action on anything. Is there anything I can do to stop this? One reason= for=20 this is...I have a cat, who when I'm around likes to disobey me. So it w= ould=20 be nice to be able to close the top when I leave the room for a few minut= es=20 and not worry about the cat poking, clawing, sneezing on the monitor. Wh= en=20 its closed, he seems to leave it alone (the monitor glow seems to attract= =20 him). Currently I move the laptop up high - but he's getting older and=20 smart...so this tactic won't last forever. Ideas?? As always, any help would be greatly appreciated. ~ Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message