Am running a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu 13.04. Overall the installation is very nice but one niggle is that the brightness controls do not always work. The following scripts have alleviated the problem: (From the thread in the Launchpad…

Make your Ubuntu notebook hibernate after a period of sleep. The Ubuntu forums here go into depth but the script from the very helpful posters is: #!/bin/bash # Script name: /etc/pm/sleep.d/0000rtchibernate # Purpose: Auto hibernates after a period of sleep…