Gnome Power Manager

BR · 2009-02-05 22:48:26

I've been following the beginners guide and have installed a few packages recommended: cpufrequtils, pm-utils, hal, acpid, laptop-mode-tools and gnome-power-manager.

It all seems to work outside of Gnome, like pm-suspend and pm-hibernate. Inside Gnome it goes all wrong, Shutdown and Restart buttons don't work until after you close the Gnome desktop (with ctrl-alt-backspace), Hibernate and Suspend buttons are missing and I have very limited options in regards to preferences. I've since installed hal from testing and installed PolicyKit.

I've been trying to follow this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=58047, but I'm completely lost.

Any ideas?

wonder · 2009-02-06 00:35:46

use hal from testing and everything will be fixed
DAMN you already using it?

Last edited by wonder (2009-02-06 00:36:50)

BR · 2009-02-06 00:54:06

Yeah I was, I have a permission problem I think, I can only use pm-suspend and pm-hibernate as root. Also in gnome DE I couldn't set authorizations for suspend, hibernate, shutdown and reboot, grant... was grayed out.

wonder · 2009-02-06 10:39:34

post the output of "groups". you should use hal from testing if you want suspend and hibernate to work

leeyee · 2009-02-06 11:26:36

I'm using pm-utils, hal from official repos, and just edited /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf as the link you've given, and I can suspend, hibernate correctly.

You may need to add yourself into hal and power group.

BR · 2009-02-09 07:46:09

Sorry for the late reply. I wasn't in the hal group, which was why I could grant myself access to suspend and hibernate in authorizations. Thanks

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#1 2009-02-05 22:48:26

Gnome Power Manager

#2 2009-02-06 00:35:46

Re: Gnome Power Manager

#3 2009-02-06 00:54:06

Re: Gnome Power Manager

#4 2009-02-06 10:39:34

Re: Gnome Power Manager

#5 2009-02-06 11:26:36

Re: Gnome Power Manager

#6 2009-02-09 07:46:09

Re: Gnome Power Manager

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