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leo72

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Registered: 2009-05-28

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Power-manager applet: wrong alerts

I have Gnome and I use power-manager-applet in the taskbar to check the life of the battery.
I noticed this strange problem... When I use the laptop with batteris and I connect the power cable, the applet displays a popup alerting me that the power cable has been disconnected! But the icon shows the right image with the plug over the battery. And if I put the mouse on it, a tooltip says that the battery is charging...
If I disconnect the cable, the applet doesn't display no alters and an OSD popup with a stylized gear appears in the middle-botton of the monitor....

Does anybody has experienced something similar?

wonder

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Re: Power-manager applet: wrong alerts

yes leo72. i've notice that too. is a upstream problem and i'm not sure if was submitted upstream or not

Last edited by wonder (2009-06-27 23:17:46)

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leo72

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Registered: 2009-05-28

Posts: 16

Re: Power-manager applet: wrong alerts

I've tried xfce4-power-manager but this program has a bug too.
Its icon appears in the sys-tray only after about 20 seconds after Gnome's loaded...
I've tried to load it from ~/.bashrc but it manifest the same problem: it appears only after a while... Could it do this because I use it under Gnome instead of XFCE?

P.S.:
I've noticed that it is also slower than gnome-power-manager in refreshing its state: if I disconnect the power cable, it pops up the notification after 5-10 seconds...

Last edited by leo72 (2009-06-30 20:26:22)

leo72

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Registered: 2009-05-28

Posts: 16

Re: Power-manager applet: wrong alerts

P.S.:
at the moment I've solved installed gnome-power-manager Ubuntu patched from AUR...