Power management in Xfce 4.10

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:44:07 +0900
Andrzej <ndrwrdck at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Nick Schermer
> <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> The initial idea was to move everything to xfce4-power-manager
> >>> and let xfce4-session make calls over d-bus, however not such a
> >>> good idea.
> >>
> >> Why not? This sounds like a nice and clean design. Splitting a set
> >> of rather closely related interfaces across two services seems
> >> less coherent in comparison (two services to talk to, with
> >> possible overlap of functionality and implementation). I'm just
> >> curious - I know absolutely nothing about the problem.
> >
> > Like I said in the first mail: for logout, shutdown and reboot (ie.
> > closing X), there is session saving involved.
> 
> Sorry, I missed that part of your explanation.
> 
> I still don't see anything fundamentally wrong with calling
> "Xfce4-session.saveSession()" from Xfce4-power-manager, though. This
> way the power manager would manage power and xfce4-session would deal
> with the session related stuff.

Neither suspend nor hibernate terminate the session, so there is no
need to save it. 

  - Jannis