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Beelzebud

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From: Illinois, U.S.

Registered: 2010-07-16

Posts: 154

[SOLVED] Is it safe to remove gnome-power-manager?

I'm on a desktop that I shut down each night before bed.   I do not require any of the features gnome-power-manager, and so I really don't want it, because it does do unwanted things from time to time (like an icon in systray that never disables correctly).

My only concern is breaking other things if I remove it.   

I've tried removing it from the gnome startup sessions, but it comes back on each reboot.   

I did an -Si command and I don't see anything it would obviously break, but I figure it can't hurt to ask.   Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Last edited by Beelzebud (2010-07-27 07:09:41)

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] Is it safe to remove gnome-power-manager?

Try it, if it breaks something you can always reinstall it

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Beelzebud

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From: Illinois, U.S.

Registered: 2010-07-16

Posts: 154

Re: [SOLVED] Is it safe to remove gnome-power-manager?

Good point!   I went ahead and just removed it.  It didn't ask me to remove anything else with it, and the machine seems stable, so I think it's safe to do.   This is the type of control that I love about Arch.   I'll report back if anything seems broken in time, but I think this will be fine.

Beelzebud

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From: Illinois, U.S.

Registered: 2010-07-16

Posts: 154

Re: [SOLVED] Is it safe to remove gnome-power-manager?

Ok, after removing gnome-power-manager I did have one problem come up, but I did find a solution.  Posting it now to help any others in this situation.   It seems like after gnome wasn't doing power management, the X server took over.  After 15 mins the monitor would power down.  I tried commenting out the "DPMS" setting in xorg.conf, but that didn't seem to do anything.   Here is what I did to keep X from powering down my monitor.

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf I added the following lines to the end of the Section "ServerLayout" section.

    Option       "BlankTime" "0"
    Option       "StandbyTime" "0"
    Option       "SuspendTime" "0"
    Option       "OffTime" "0"

The end result looks like this (just to avoid confusing anyone):

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
    Option         "BlankTime" "0"
    Option         "StandbyTime" "0"
    Option         "SuspendTime" "0"
    Option         "OffTime" "0"
EndSection

This seems to be working, as the monitor has not powered off since I added those commands.

Last edited by Beelzebud (2010-07-27 08:49:06)

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: [SOLVED] Is it safe to remove gnome-power-manager?

It's not safe, I hope you didn't remove it already. Because if you did, a velociraptor is on it's way to your home right now.

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