[Goodies-dev] Xfce power manager version 0.8.0alpha is ready for testing

Ali Abdallah aliov at xfce.org
Thu Apr 2 10:46:53 CEST 2009


Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mer, 2009-04-01 at 23:09 +0200, Ali Abdallah wrote:
>
>   
>>>> *: Xfpm detects now if the session is idle and reduces the laptop 
>>>> brightness if enabled.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> This seem to not work correctly. When set to something more than
>>> “never”, it works, but if reset to “never”, it still uses the previous
>>> setting (or 10s, I'm not that sure).
>>> The DPMS settings seem to not work either, they're never activated here.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I have fixed this issues few days ago, please try what is in svn if you have time.
>>     
>
> It seems fixed in svn, thanks.
>   
>>>> *: New inhibit panel plugin to monitor/change the inhibit status of the 
>>>> power manager (should work with gpm as well).
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> What exactly is the “inhibit“ stuff? Do you have some input on that? :)
>>>       
>  
>   
>> The inhibit plugin it is just to monitor/inhibit the automatic sleep on 
>> a well known org.freedesktop.PowerManagement, as an example an update 
>> manager should inhibit the power manager ( and actually the session 
>> manager ) when updating the system, so in this way the power manager 
>> shouldn't attempt to do suspend/hibernate/whetever action that disturbs 
>> the inhibitor.
>>     
>
> Hmhm ok. Couldn't that be added somewhere in the pm itself? What is the
> use of a plugin for that? Or don't the plugins need xfce4-power-manager
> at all, and thus can be installed independently?
>
> Btw, another issue is that the “when battery power is critical” setting
> seems to be forgotten each time. 
>
> If setting to Hibernate or None, the xfconf key is properly set, but
> when closing the preferences and reopening it, the key value is reset to
> “Shutdown” and logs say:
>
> (xfce4-power-manager:30337): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: Invalid
> value Shutdown for
> property /xfce4-power-manager/critical-battery-action, using default
>
> When manually setting it to “Shutdown”, logs say:
>
> (xfce4-power-manager:30337): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: Invalid
> value Shutdown for
> property /xfce4-power-manager/critical-battery-action, using default
>
> But then the property is correctly set to “Shutdown”.
>
>
> Oh and btw, there are a lot of glade warnings in from the preferences
> settings here.
>
>   

All those are fixed in revision 7092.

> Cheers,
>   
>   
Cheers,
Ali.

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