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Kolibry

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Registered: 2012-12-20

Posts: 110

Xfce power manager doesn't effect my system

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use xfce4-power-manager to mange my laptop's battery and other things. The software is started, I set it up, but it just doesn't have any effect

A concrete example, I set the action "When you close your laptop : " to "Do nothing". And each time I close it, the laptop will suspend

I tried on both Xfce and Openbox sessions, and none of these is working. KDE session and KDe power management are working on the same install.

[xfce4-power-manager --no-daemon

(xfce4-power-manager:741): GLib-WARNING **: (gerror.c:390):g_error_new_valist: runtime check failed: (domain != 0)

(xfce4-power-manager:741): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: Unable to connect to session managet : Échec de connexion au gestionnaire de session : SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined

(xfce4-power-manager:741): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: Unable to create proxy for 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit'

(xfce4-power-manager:741): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: could not map keysym 1008ffa8 to keycode


** (xfce4-power-manager:741): WARNING **: No outputs have backlight property

Any clue ?

Thanks in advance !

Last edited by Kolibry (2014-01-27 17:55:33)

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Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Xfce power manager doesn't effect my system

Systemd is handling your power events instead of xfce4-power-manager.

Edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf, uncomment the required lines and set to ignore. For example...

HandleLidSwitch=ignore

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Po … CPI_events (note the warning section).

Last edited by Slithery (2014-01-27 17:48:34)

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WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Xfce power manager doesn't effect my system

I don't use such things on my machine, but I vaguely remember there being changes to the DE power manager tools that made this unnecessary.  In particular, I thought it was supposed to run an instance of systemd-inhibit and then use the '--ignore-inhibitors' switch with systemctl.  Though maybe I am just making things up in my head or maybe that was a different DE.  I don't use a DE or these tools...

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,635

Re: Xfce power manager doesn't effect my system

I know gnome and kde added the inhibits, but I don't think Xfce has yet. From what I can tell, their power manager hasn't had a release in nearly two years.

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 497

Re: Xfce power manager doesn't effect my system

Currently being worked on. Not yet commited to the master branch.
Looks like this is the bug report.

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Xfce power manager doesn't effect my system

Ah, okay.  I was half way making shit up in my head then.  Good to know.