[Goodies-dev] Power manager 0.8.0alpha2

[Mike Massonnet]

2009/4/8 Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com>:
> 2009/4/4 Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org>:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi Ali,
>
>> This is a second alpha release of the version 0.8
>
> I left a mail in the other thread about buttons and luminosity. In
> fact they don't work on my Acer Aspire One. For the luminosity I have
> no clue (I guess it works from the hardware...). For the buttons, I
> tweaked a script provided by Debian (/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh) to check
> if xfce4-power-manager is running. I did so but then xfpm doesn't
> notice when I press the power button. Yves-Alexis let me know that
> when I press the power button, someone (the kernel) has to send a
> message to hal.
>
> Tho, I tried gnome-power-manager just before, and it works fine if I
> press the power button. Even the "ask me the question" is working fine
> (good job Brian!) :-)

Also to mention that the applet provided by gpm to control the
luminosity isn't working either. As said, I suspect this to be done
under the hood.

> Mike
>
>> and here are the changes:
>>
>> *: Automatically detects of the application inhibiting the power manager
>> crashed and didn't send UnInhibit message with the cookie. (Media player for
>> example).
>> *: Brightness popup indicating the current brightness level when the user
>> presses brightness up or down keys.
>> *: Block any other notification when the Critical battery notification is
>> shown.
>>
>> *: Exit option in the context menu.
>>
>> *: Added man pages, thanks for Robby Workman for the help.
>>
>> *: Fix some issues with wrong values shown in the settings dialog.
>>
>>
>> Download:
>> http://goodies.xfce.org/releases/xfce4-power-manager/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.0alpha.tar.bz2
>>
>> Cheers and have a nice day,
>> Ali.
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