Comments on: Jupiter – Awesome Netbook Power/Config Applet

By: Rick Cadger

Rick Cadger — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:05:00 +0000

Works great. Hibernate and suspend are fine.

By: NesterX

NesterX — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:07:00 +0000

OMGeveryone! ;)
i have a problem with this applet, i cant see jupiter icon in the panel, any suggestion?
i’m using ubuntu 10.10 32bit.
thanks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:13:00 +0000

Fewt doesn’t officially support this for Ubuntu hence the reason for no PPA.

Jupiter is part of the Aurora Distribution by default as Fewt is a developer :)

By: Ethan Anderson

Ethan Anderson — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:18:00 +0000

It doesn’t do anything I can’t do with either another piece of software or my wireless switch. I was hoping not to have to dig into my BIOS to turn off USB and sound devices and the like. Nope.

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Jupiter mono icons for Ambiance — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:44:34 +0000

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By: Ecosavvyc19

Ecosavvyc19 — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:02:00 +0000

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By: Fabio

Fabio — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:14:00 +0000

“There is a workaround if you are using cpu with more than 2 cores:”

Workaround for what?

By: Izaac

Izaac — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:39:00 +0000

There is a workaround if you are using cpu with more than 2 cores:

You need to edit file: /usr/lib/jupiter/scripts/cpu-control and edit a part of the code to look like this:

if [ -e "$JUPITER_VAR/cpu-control-busy" ]; then
countdown=”4″
while [ $countdown -gt 0 ]; do
sleep 1
if [ ! -e "$JUPITER_VAR/cpu-control-busy" ]; then
break
fi
countdown=$[$countdown-1]
done
rm -f $JUPITER_VAR/cpu-control-busy
else
touch “$JUPITER_VAR/cpu-control-busy”
fi

if [ -e "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" ]; then
FSB_CPU0=$(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor)
fi

if [ -e "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor" ]; then
FSB_CPU1=$(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor)
fi

if [ -e "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor" ]; then
FSB_CPU2=$(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/cpufreq/scaling_governor)
fi

if [ -e "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor" ]; then
FSB_CPU3=$(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cpufreq/scaling_governor)
fi

This is for a 4 cores i5 cpu, for example.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:04:00 +0000

Just a warning: I installed this on my netbook running Ubuntu Netbook Remix and could no longer hibernate or suspend, even after uninstalling. The solution was here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8877026

Gav

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:25:00 +0000

Yeah. i just removed that same entry from the script that activated it.

By: MatthewDS

MatthewDS — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Solution to broken suspend and hibernate here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8877026

By: MatthewDS

MatthewDS — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:56:00 +0000

Ubuntu 9.10, Installed, didn’t like, uninstalled, but suspend on laptop lid close is broken.

By: Nick Galfas

Nick Galfas — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:01:00 +0000

i haven’t tried to remove it… i am not sure how to do it.. for sure..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:03:00 +0000

have you fixed your suspend? i can’t fix mine.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:02:00 +0000

how did you uninstall it? it permenetly changed system config, and i can’t suspend.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:42:00 +0000

yeah… his program broke suspend for me. not happy.

By: Andy Piper

Andy Piper — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:36:00 +0000

First thing to say is that this is a really nice little tool.

Having said that:
- it’s a shame there’s no PPA and / or it’s not aiming to make its way into the Ubuntu Netbook Edition. That would seem like a natural place for some of this functionality.
- as others have commented, it has some overlap with other tools like the GNOME power management stuff, so it might make sense to converge with them.
- I’m now a bit confused as I use micromiser to manage the CPU performance so I’m not sure what is switching profiles.
- it needs to follow GNOME HIG better… right now it seems to use ** to mark the active option rather than a tick or other UI marking.

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:02:00 +0000

Thanks, this seems like a very useful app, time will tell if it helps save battery life!

The video display settings would also be very handy but unfortunately Jupiter doesn’t detect my external monitor…

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:02:00 +0000

Thanks, this seems like a very useful app, time will tell if it helps save battery life!

The video display settings would also be very handy but unfortunately Jupiter doesn’t detect my external monitor…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:09:00 +0000

nvr mind