Acme (was: Fedora PPC things...)

[Christian Walther]

Colin Charles wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:56 +0100, Patrick wrote:
>>> I didn't find any
>>> package or program named "acme"
>>
>>  From http://devin.com/acme/
>>
>> Acme is obsolete -- much of the Acme code was rolled into the GNOME 
>> 2.6
>> control center, and hence Acme is no longer maintained. If you're 
>> trying
>> to report a bug and are using a recent GNOME, please use GNOME 
>> Bugzilla.
>
> Acme is integrated into gnome control-center.

I knew that, but I hadn't found it anywhere there. I have found it now, 
it's in the "Keyboard Shortcuts" control panel. I didn't find it there 
because it didn't occur to me that these keys could be considered 
"shortcuts", and the relevant actions are some way down in the list 
where I didn't bother to scroll.

It works mostly, but I'm not completely happy with it, for the 
following reasons:

o If you set screen brightness to zero, the LCD is completely turned 
off, but it isn't turned back on when you try to raise brightness 
again. You can get it back by sleeping and waking, but then changing 
brightness doesn't work anymore.
Whether turning off the LCD is a good thing is debatable - it saves 
power in those situations where you can't see anything without the 
backlight anyway, on the other hand it prevents you from turning the 
backlight off when you're working in bright sunlight. Having a level -1 
with everything off and a level 0 with backlight off but LCD on would 
provide the best of both worlds.
The rest are definitely bugs. I suspect this stuff is handled by the 
kernel, not by Acme itself?

o The "mute" function just seems to be a shortcut for "set volume to 
zero", meaning you can't unmute by pressing the button again (like you 
can in Mac OS, and IIRC with pbbuttons).

  -Christian