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I am struggling with xfce now . When i was using gnome , l like gnome-power-manager very much . Is there a similar program in Xfce could do a replacement ?
Do not use Linux as desktop.
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"Overspecialize and you breed in weakness..." Major Motoko Kusanagi
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You can use gnome-power-manager in Xfce as well
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What's "Bump" precious? Were you simply bringing the thread back to life?
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Short answer... There isn't one.
Long answer... Use acpid. Good luck on that, I still haven't gotten it to suspend without also suspending on leaving suspend.
There's also xfce-power-manager in SVN, but it is in *early* development, and knowing XFCE I wouldn't expect it to be released for several years.
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The post was to revive the topic.
@Megamixman: I've installed gnome-power-manager. I can do some settings with gnome-power-preferences, but they don't work. Trying to run gnome-power-manager as root gives the following error:
(gnome-power-manager:4137): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
They only thing I want to use a power manager for is to turn off my screen after x amount of time and the same goes for my hdd's.
"Overspecialize and you breed in weakness..." Major Motoko Kusanagi
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Well if that's all you want to do, a combination of acpid and laptop-mode-tools would likely be lighter.
with Gnome-power-manager you have to make sure your in the power group before you can fully use it, since dbus relies on group permissions
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Update:
There's also this, in case anyone is interested. I don't really have the time to maintain a PKGBUILD, but it looks very useful.
Last edited by Gullible Jones (2008-06-28 03:44:07)
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PKGBILD
pkgname=battery-applet-4-xfce4
pkgver=0.9.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A battery applet for the Xfce4"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
license=('GPL2')
url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/battery-4-xfce4/"
groups=('xfce4-goodies')
depends=('libxfce4util' 'libxfcegui4' 'gtk2' 'xfce4-panel' 'dbus' 'libnotify')
makedepends=('pkgconfig')
options=('!libtool')
install=${pkgname}.install
source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/battery-4-xfce4/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('3ff7d09d66ce8717bef3f52631890b6f')
build() {
cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib/xfce4 \
--localstatedir=/var --disable-static
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install
}
battery-applet-4-xfce4.install
post_install() {
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
}
post_upgrade() {
post_install $1
}
post_remove() {
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
}
op=$1
shift
$op $*
I wrote one . have a try
Last edited by jarryson (2008-06-28 05:18:05)
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Hey, thanks!
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but i realy dont know whether it's better than xfce4-battery-plugin or not..
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But what about a simple tool that lets you switch off the screen and idle drives after X amount of time? I can't get gnome-power-manager to work under xfce, but shouldn't xfce have such a feature... especially nowadays?
"Overspecialize and you breed in weakness..." Major Motoko Kusanagi
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laptop-mode-tools and xscreensaver. laptop-mode handles spinning down the drive, xscreensaver does power management.
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