Anno domini 2025 Tue, 1 Apr 10:12:34 -0500 Darrell Anderson via tde-users scripsit: > I installed tdepowersave. Clicking the system tray icon pops open a > display dialog that does not fit the laptop screen. The 15 inch > 1920x1080 screen resolution is not the problem -- the dialog is too long > vertically to fit the screen. Try as I might I could not resize the > dialog and the dialog has no scroll bar. > > The design of this dialog seems untested because many if not a majority > of laptop screens are 14 inch -- some even smaller. As with most things > I accept my own ignorance and naivety might be to blame. Nonetheless I > get the feeling this dialog was designed on a large laptop -- no scroll > bar? Or perhaps was tested only on a dual core laptop. (There are other > dialogs like this, such as in KControl, that are not resizable and don't > fit on a laptop screen) > > One issue here is the laptop CPU is 4-core, but 8 threads. The dialog > code (actually the kernel code) interprets this as 8 cores. While CPU > usage is interesting, I think the information is superfluous to energy > saving. Most people, at least me, are concerned only with the batteries. > > * Is there a way to resize this dialog? I tried clicking the title bar, > using Move and Resize to no avail. > > * Is there a way to remove the CPU usage information? Nice info but not > needed here. > > * Is there a way to configure tdepowersave not to automatically start > when there is no battery? The user account I use on my laptop is synced > to my office desktop where there are no batteries and no real concern > with energy usage. > > Not too get carried away. Seems to be a decent tool but as often is the > case, I seem to be a user outside the expected usage bell curve. Keep the <ALT> key ressed, keep the <left mouse buttopn> pressed, move the mouse --> window moves. Not what you are looking for, but nowadays 128 cpus in column kills old school dialogs :) Nik > > Thanks. > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
