I run Suse 10.1 on my laptop, and often run on battery power while I am commuting. The problem I am having is when the batteries are almost run out. The system pops up a message, warning me my battery is running low. It then immediately initiates a "shutdown", without giving me a chance to close what I am working on.
The other interesting thing is that the shutdown never completes successfully; it always hangs halfway through.
I would much prefer it to just let me know that I am about to run out of batteries and leave it to me to shutdown the computer when I am ready. This was the old behaviour under 9.2.

Does anyone know how to change this? I have looked for a setting but haven't found one.

What gui are you running?

On the shutdown when you do it does it shutdown fine?

Brian

I'm running KDE.

When I do a shutdown it shuts down fine. It's only when it does this "Oh my god you're running out of batteries I'd better shut down before something bad happens" thing that the shutdown hangs.
The shutdown hang isn't so important; I want it to stop shutting down in the first place.

You can control the shutdown behavour from the KDE control center (kcontrol; there is an energy options tab somewhere). You can configure it to just pop up a warning but not initiate the shutdown.

BTW, I was never able to configure my laptop(s) to
a) successfully shutdown (that part was easy)
AND
b) to wake up again (I usually ended up with a freshly booted system)

OK, I found it. The solution is to go into YAST, select System->Power Management. Then from the Power Management front screen, click "Other Settings"->Battery Warning.
This then lets you change the various settings for Warning, Low Capacity and Critical. I changed it from "Shutdown" to "Notify".

Thanks to everyone who responded to this question.

Glad to see you have it worked out.

Brian