[Goodies-dev] Power manager 0.8.0alpha2

Ali Abdallah aliov at xfce.org
Wed Apr 8 09:03:39 CEST 2009


Mike Massonnet wrote:
> 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!) :-)
>   

If these buttons works with gnome-power-manager than they will work 
after a re-add the HAL button events, for now i just use X11 buttons. 
But to make sure you can run lshal -m and press those buttons 
(brightness, sleep, .... ) and see if they generate events.

> 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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