1. NAME

gnome-power-manager - gnome power manager userspace daemon

2. SYNOPSIS

gnome-power-manager [ --verbose ] [ --debug ] [ --help ]

3. DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the gnome-power-manager command.

gnome-power-manager is the backend program of the GNOME power management infrastructure providing a complete and integrated solution to power management under the GNOME desktop environment.

It supports features such as suspending, hibernating, screen blanking, cpu frequency switching and more in one small neat package.

4. OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

  • --help
        Show summary of options.
  • --verbose
        Show extra debugging.
  • --no-daemon
        Do not detach gnome-power-manager into the background so that error messages will be displayed on console.
  • --debug
        Only show specific debugging options. Useful for developers only.

5. SEE ALSO

gnome-power-preferences (1).

The programs are documented fully on http://gnome.org/projects/gnome-power-manager/ .

6. AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Oliver Grawert <> for the Debian system and updated by Ow Mun Heng <>