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lovat

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From: Shanghai

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 41

Best power management software in Xfce?

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 ?

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HydroDiOxide

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 99

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

Bump

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Megamixman

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Registered: 2008-05-04

Posts: 73

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

You can use gnome-power-manager in Xfce as well

sniffles

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 275

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

Bump

What's "Bump" precious? Were you simply bringing the thread back to life?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

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.

HydroDiOxide

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 99

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

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.

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Megamixman

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Registered: 2008-05-04

Posts: 73

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

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

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

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)

jarryson

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Registered: 2007-02-18

Posts: 298

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

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)

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

Hey, thanks!

jarryson

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Registered: 2007-02-18

Posts: 298

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

but i realy dont know whether it's better than xfce4-battery-plugin or not..

HydroDiOxide

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 99

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

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?

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Best power management software in Xfce?

laptop-mode-tools and xscreensaver. laptop-mode handles spinning down the drive, xscreensaver does power management.