[needs-packaging] acpitoolgui (ACPI Tool GUI)

[Anders]

ACPI Tool GUI is a graphical front end to the acpitool utility (which allows fine frained control over for example which devices (keyboard, mouse) that can wake a suspended PC from sleep.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpitoolgui/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpitoolgui/files/

It'd be even better if this feature was available as a switch accessible through normal user GUI e.g. in the GNOME power manager preferences or similar (wherever one can set suspend/hibernate preferences) but as a fallback/interim solution, the acpitoolgui could be the powertool for the interested user...

Related requests / bugs:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21747/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/109446
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/199006

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.