Low energy state has a minimum value of 5 %

Binary package hint: xfce4-power-manager

The smallest value of remaining battery power one can set for automatic shutdown to kick in is 5 %. However, batteries are not that accurate and usually predict less power than what is available. Also the shutdown times are far less than remaining time, even when battery is at 1%. Therefor I'd like to be able to set this value to whatever i want, even 0% would seem reasonable to me. The battery won't be completely drained when reaching 0% and the remaining power will be enough to shutdown the system.

Another practical reason: when in standby mode and reaching the critical level, the system awakes to shutdown. If it is then somehow prevented from successfully halting, it will continue to run until the battery fails, thus heating the bag, it might be currently carried in. If i could set this value to 0%, the heating-time in case of shutdown failure could be minimized.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 14 20:38:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: xfce4-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2443): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (xfce4-cpugraph-plugin:2561): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_set_border_width: assertion `GTK_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed
 (xfwm4:2412): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_events: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
 (xfwm4:2412): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_events: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed