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Carl Karl

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Registered: 2013-06-12

Posts: 231

[SOLVED] xfce4-power-manager: Tray icon gone since recent version.

Is it just me or is the xfce4-power-manager Tray icon showing battery status gone for you, too?
I liked that icon and it's function!
So do you have the same problem and - maybe -  a solution? The xfce4-battery-plugin is not half as good!

Last edited by Carl Karl (2014-10-29 17:59:52)

matman

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] xfce4-power-manager: Tray icon gone since recent version.

It's not just you. There's an entry in the pacman log:

[2014-10-29 17:40] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] :: Xfce Power Manager no longer provides a tray icon.
[2014-10-29 17:40] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]    Please add the new Power Manager Plugin to your panel.
[2014-10-29 17:40] [PACMAN] upgraded xfce4-power-manager (1.2.0.212.g75107db-1 -> 1.4.1-2)

So it looks like a "feature" not a bug :-)
I agree, the new one, with no sys tray is somewhat worse. Maybe a downgrade? I am not eager to try though...

Edit: Added missing log part

Last edited by matman (2014-10-29 17:33:23)

Carl Karl

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Registered: 2013-06-12

Posts: 231

Re: [SOLVED] xfce4-power-manager: Tray icon gone since recent version.

Thanks for your reply!
In Fact, I've overlooked the Power Manager Plugin, it's at least better than xfce4-battery-plugin.

nrwilk

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Registered: 2014-12-11

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] xfce4-power-manager: Tray icon gone since recent version.

Thanks a lot for this. I had been searching for the cause of this 'bug' for a little while.

Is the new Power Manager Plugin usable in WMs like Awesome? What would need to be installed/executed?

EDIT: Nevermind. I just used the vicious widget to build my own.

EDIT2: In case anyone was also wondering, I did find it. It's called xfce4-battery-plugin. But, it requires xfce4-panel, which is why I went my own way.
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extr … ry-plugin/

Last edited by nrwilk (2014-12-12 02:35:28)