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[Nicolas Joyard <joyard.nicolas@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:58, Richard H. Mezger <rimez.rm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Really dumb question, but would you happen to know of any existing scripts
> that could aid in the turning off/on of the the card? Preferably with a GUI
> front-end as I'm just an end user.
>
> Ideally I would create a link in my task bar and click it to turn off/on
> the graphics card. An indicator would be brilliant.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>

Unfortunately not (yet). But you can create shell scripts in your home
folder with the same commands as those you use to power on/off your card,
make launchers to these shell scripts and put those in your
taskbar/dock/unity launcher.