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#1 2011-06-11 22:19:13

nadman10
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From: Erie, PA
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Trouble with "xfce4-power-manager"

When I launch the power manager, the option to "Put the computer to sleep when inactive for:" is greyed out. Any Ideas on where to start? Pm-tools seem to work fine and acpi seems to mostly work.

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#2 2011-06-11 22:56:01

ConnorBehan
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Re: Trouble with "xfce4-power-manager"

What groups are you in? Does that happen when you launch it as root?


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#3 2011-06-11 23:49:40

firecat53
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Re: Trouble with "xfce4-power-manager"

Are you starting from a login manager (gdm) or from .xinitrc/startx ? If the latter, do you have something like 'exec ck-launch-session startxfce4' in your .xinitrc? Is dbus running?

Scott

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#4 2011-06-13 07:26:38

nadman10
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Re: Trouble with "xfce4-power-manager"

Not starting from a login manager. I added 'exec ck-launch-session startxfce4' in my .xinitrc with no luck. Dbus is running.

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#5 2011-07-01 16:00:57

Aakko
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Registered: 2007-10-23
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Re: Trouble with "xfce4-power-manager"

xfce4-power-manager probably needs some additional policykit-configuration to work properly but I don't know what. If I check spindown harddisks from it and start xfce4-power-manager again the choice is unchecked.

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#6 2011-07-01 18:18:08

Eishorn
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Re: Trouble with "xfce4-power-manager"

How do you launch dbus? I had to add it to my DAEMONS array *and* to .xinitrc to get things to work properly, basically following this wiki entry. Checking the spindown option also worked with no further effort.

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#7 2011-07-02 10:12:31

Aakko
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Re: Trouble with "xfce4-power-manager"

i have dbus in daemons-section of rc.conf and exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startxfce4 in .xinitrc.

Also xfce4-power-manager --dump shows:  Authorized to spin down hard disks: True

I wonder if I am missing some package. As far a I know xfce4-power-manager uses udisks to spin down hard disks and I have udisks-package installed.

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