[Goodies-dev] Power manager 0.8.0alpha2

[Ali Abdallah]

Mike Massonnet wrote:
> 2009/4/8 Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org>:
>   
>> 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!) :-)
>>>       
>
> The gnome power manager has a combo box with several actions when the
> power button is pressed, and "ask me the question" is one of them. It
> pops up the logout prompt of xfce4-session.
>
>   

Yes this is nice, i have to add it.

>> 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.
>>     
>
> 13:01:30.691: computer_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = power
>
> I get nothing if I press the sleep button, or the brightness buttons.
>
>   

I have an aspire one and all the keys are working as well as the 
brightness, but it is xubuntu jaunty (with acer_wmi module loaded), 
anyway for the buttons i have to fallback to HAL in case of failure to 
map X11 keys.


> Mike
>   


>   
>>> 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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