KDE 4.8 stale power management profile errors?

cfr · 2012-01-31 02:28:44

After upgrading to 4.8, I'm getting complaints from KDE that the power management profile for low battery is calling DisableDesktopEffects (if I remember correctly - I was out and about on battery at the time) and that this call doesn't exist. Looking in the GUI, the option for disabling desktop effects on low battery appears to have disappeared so I'm assuming that KDE no longer offers this option but for some reason doesn't recognise it as deprecated and therefore doesn't automatically update the profile. (It tells me it is probably an installation or configuration issue.)

Can anybody tell me where KDE stores the power management profiles? I'm thinking that deleting the relevant file under my home directory ought to force KDE to update with a new default which I can then configure using the (limited) remaining options.

arojas · 2012-01-31 08:44:42

I guess it's ~/.kde4/share/config/powermanagementprofilesrc

panosk · 2012-01-31 09:31:44

arojas wrote:

I guess it's ~/.kde4/share/config/powermanagementprofilesrc

Yup, I guess this is it. Now deleting the section

[LowBattery][DisableDesktopEffects]
idleTime=600000
onIdle=true

should do the trick.

cfr · 2012-02-01 01:00:26

Thanks! That's a neater solution than I'd hoped for. (I just would have assumed I had to delete the whole file and start over.)

I think it is a shame this option has disappeared, mind, but this should stop KDE complaining about a deficiency which I view as of its own making!

Not sure whether to mark this solved now or not. Should I wait until the next time the low battery profile is triggered? Or should it be marked now because my specific question was answered? Not sure what the etiquette is, quite.

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KDE 4.8 stale power management profile errors?

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