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tehfade

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Registered: 2011-04-08

Posts: 1

How do I get gnome-power-manager working with standalone Openbox?

I'm brand new to Arch, so sorry if this is a dumb question that's already been answered. I'm installing on a Thinkpad T410, and I want a battery icon in my system tray. I've installed Openbox as a standalone window manager, and I'm using tint2 for a panel and system tray. I need something in my system tray to show my battery status.

I've looked around, and I don't really see any alternative to gnome-power-manager (I looked at trayfreq and batterymon), so I'm attempting to use that. I've installed it, but if I try to run it from a terminal I get this:

GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power' is not installed

aborting...
Aborted

After I get that, it quits and I really don't know what's going on there. Searching for "settings schema not installed" gets me nothing useful, so does anyone have an idea as to how to solve this problem?

nikor

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Registered: 2007-09-19

Posts: 7

Re: How do I get gnome-power-manager working with standalone Openbox?

Welcome to arch
I think it's problem with dependencies after the switch to gnome 3.
Installing gnome-settings-daemon solved the problem for me.

jsteel

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Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 119

Re: How do I get gnome-power-manager working with standalone Openbox?

Sorry to hijack this, but I had the same issue and your solution worked for me, but the battery icon is "GNOME 3" which doesn't look good on my Xfce setup and I can't find a way to change it. Is network-manager-applet going to go down the same route do you know? It looks OK... for now!

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n1md4

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Registered: 2010-02-24

Posts: 25

Re: How do I get gnome-power-manager working with standalone Openbox?

This solution worked for me too.  I run a vanilla openbox install.  Although I now have the battery icon in the panel, when selecting preferences, nothing loads.  Any ideas?

ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

Re: How do I get gnome-power-manager working with standalone Openbox?

I'm using batterymeter (from the AUR) with standalone openbox and it works great.  Of course its a QT app so if you're one of those GTK purists that may not be an option.

Last edited by ctarwater (2011-05-27 19:57:30)

ilusi0n

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Registered: 2010-06-09

Posts: 187

Re: How do I get gnome-power-manager working with standalone Openbox?

This solution worked for me too.  I run a vanilla openbox install.  Although I now have the battery icon in the panel, when selecting preferences, nothing loads.  Any ideas?

From this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118420 the user said it solved it installing gnome-control-center.