[Goodies-dev] Power manager 0.8.0alpha2

[Ali Abdallah]

Mike Massonnet wrote:
> 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!) :-)
>>     
>
> I forgot to ask, what is the meaning of the option "Enable monitor
> power management control"? Could be worth to add a tooltip perhaps.
>
>   

Disable DPMS. A tooltip is a good idea here.

>> 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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