I've installed Xfce power manager via Ubuntu, but I have no idea how to use it, even after a restart still no change. I've gone through Control Center and even searching for it, but alas no sign of it anywhere.This is the command I ran via Terminal.
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$ sudo apt-get install xfce4-power-manager.I'm on Natty Beta 2,
I am running Slackware 13 (64 bit) and when Xfce starts up, a message box opens up with the error:
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Xfce power manager. Unable to read AC adapter status, the power manager will not work properly. Possible reasons: The AC adapter driver is not loaded, broken connection with the hardware abstract layer or the message bus daemon is not running.
dbus-daemon is running, so according to the error message the problem must be the AC adapter driver is not loaded, or broken connection with the hardware abstract layer.
I'm using Slackware64 13.37 with Robby's Xfce 4.8 build on a laptop with two batteries. I've noticed that when the charge for one battery is depleted, the empty battery icon for the xfce4-power-manager panel applet is displayed as an "image missing" icon (see the attachments for screenshots of how this progresses).
Is this just down to a missing image, or is it more subtle than that? Has anyone else had the same problem, and if so how did you fix it? So far I've tried clearing the GTK+ icon cache and reinstalling the hicolor icon theme package as suggested in other threads in this forum, but nothing changed.
I'm running Slackware64 13.1. When I change the bright of my screen, xfce power manager show a info bar. But now it disappear, when I run xfce4-power-manager from a terminal I get this info:
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Another thing, Slackware don't have cpu governors?
I use Squeeze with Xfce. My problem is that recently (after the xfce updates) the xfce power manager doesnt react to the power button - it is set to suspend. I dont have gnome-power manager or anything like it running.
If i reboot the computer, the power button will work but if i suspend and resume, it doesnt work again.
The computer is built on an Asus M3N78-VM mobo (2GB RAM/Athlon3200+ single core).
acpi_listen detects the button press.
Any thoughts?
Because Ubuntu 11.04 is a bit heavy for the capabilities of my older desktop hardware, I am in the process of switching over to Xubuntu 11.04 going forward. I found the "sleep inhibit applet" very useful when I was using the Gnome DE, and was searching for a replacement in XFCE that doesn't require installing a bunch of Gnome libraries. I found a description of "caffeine" as a utility that seems to be what I'm looking for, but when I added the caffeine ppa to my repositories, and select it for installation in Synaptic, it wants to add a long list of Gnome-related components. Is there any quick way to temporarily disable the screensaver and power management functions in XCFE that doesn't depend on Gnome?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedLinux OS: Ubuntu 10.10..In Windows, we can use Device Manager to check the power usage of my USB devices (like my WiFi adapter use 500mA). How to check this under linux?The purpose of asking this question is just to learn.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWith Slackware 13.1 I decided to switch to Xfce, but as I like Konsole I'm using it under Xfce. I like to have Konsole being fired up with root privileges, so I added Launcher to Xfce panel with command as follows:
Code:
kdesu -c "konsole -e /bin/bash -l"
Now, when I open the Konsole with this Launcher everything is fine, I can run commands as the root user. But if I try to use tab completion in bash, the CPU usage suddenly goes very high. I found that the process causing this problem is:
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dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
and it is owned by root. When I kill this process the CPU usage gets normal, but I'm not able to run Konsole with the Launcher any more. The only way to get it back is to kill all the kdesu (owned by me) and dbus processes (owned by root). I also noticed that normal user (that is me using Xfce) has also exactly the same dbus process running, that is
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dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
BTW, this doesn't happen when I run xterm or Termianl. Also, using
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kdesu dbus-launch konsole
gives the same odd effect. So I'd like to ask how can I solve this problem? I'm running Slackware 13.1 with Xfce 4.6.2 built with Robby Workman's SlackBuild [URL] with the source code modified so it runs KDE4 services (kdeinit4 and krunner) instead of KDE3 services (kdeinit and dcop). I have also my own custom kernel, but I think it's not relevant in any way.
I've got two servers that are (as far as I'm aware) exactly the same. Both are Dell PE1850 with the same hardware configuration, both are running of FC12, both have the same deamons running (except number 1 runs apache/php and number 2 runs mysqld). The same modules are activated for the kernel. I still have to dubbelcheck the BIOS settings, but they should be all the same.
But the power consumption of both systems is very different! A graph of the power usage is attached to this post, the spikes are reboots. Anyone can help me on finding out which system difference between these systems is causing the power consumption differences?
On a fresh install of Debian 8 with XFCE (with a NVIDIA GeForce 210 according to lspci, and a P7P55D Asus mainboard), I just added a second monitor. This second monitor does not switches off even though the first one does due to the Screensaver Preferences → Advanced → Off After 3 minutes.
The new screen is a HP Pavilion 25xw plugged in using a HDMI cord.
The old screen is a Philips 190S plugged in using a VGA cord.
The new screen (HP on HDMI) only goes blank when the old one (Philips VGA) turns off.
Two tests:
- on the same machine, I also have Windows XP: both screens turns off at the same time with the power management.
- I tried on Debian: Code: Select allsleep 5 && xrandr --output HDMI-1 –off
It turns off the second monitor, so I know that it is possible to turn it off from my Debian.
How to set up the system so that both monitors power off when the machine is not used?
Since I own one of those Centrino based Core 2 notebooks that create annoying buzzing noises when idle (= entering C3 or C4 power saving states), I'm looking for a program that creates artificial CPU usage. It should allow me to limit the CPU usage to a certain percentage (I know that there are a lot of easy ways to create 100% usage ;-).
Another option would be to disable the C3 or C4 states, but in newer kernels the sysfs interface to set the max_cstate on-the-fly was removed for some reason, and I don't always want to reboot after switching from AC to battery (and vice versa).
Since according to liquorix.net the kernel
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Linux t 4.0-5.dmz.3-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Debian 4.0-12 (2015-06-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux
incorporates Zen Interactive Tuning and this
[URL] .... wrote:Tunes the kernel for responsiveness at the cost of throughput and power usage.
I have a problem that the process modem-manager eats up all the cpu resources making it impossible to do anything on my PC. This issue is comes up randomly even during boot up and unfortunately very often. The twist in it is that I can not even kill the process using kill or killall (tried to kill even from top; of course with sudo)
How can I shutdown a process when kill does not help? Is there any way I can disable to start this process during boot up?
I just had a power cut whilst installing updates on my laptop (which dosen't have a battery)
When i try to use update manager or synaptic now i get this message:
When i do sudo dpkg --configure -a this is what i get:
I am having issues with Gnome Power Manager. My wife and I have identical computers, with Linux Mint 8 installed on both. My Linux Mint 8 is a fresh install, whereas her's was an upgrade. Anyway, when I click suspend or hibernate nothing happens, not even an error. On my wife's computer this works just fine. sudo pm-hibernate, sudo pm-suspend, and sudo /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh do absolutely nothing.
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On my login-screen, there is a message saying that the configuration defaults for Gnome Power Manager have not been installed correctly. I can still log in and work normally, but it seems to me that the system is pretty slow (which might or might not be because of this). It's been there for a while when I used version 9.10, but didn't disappear when I updated to 10.04. I searched for other threads with this problem, and found:
1) This one:URL...saying that it could be because the root drive was full, and said that I could run "sudo apt-get clean" to try to solve it. This didn't work, and it doesn't look like I'm low on space, anyway. Plus I can log in normally, so it doesn't look like the same problem.
2) This one: URL....advises me to run "sudo dpkg --configure -a", which seems to have worked for other people, but it didn't help me--when I restart, I still get the same error message.
Gnome Power Manager has been giving me problems for a while now, all of which I have at least found a workaround, (sudo gnome-power-manager) with the exception of this one.
Gnome power manager will not make my computer suspend or hibernate on low or critically low battery.
I've installed acpi, configured laptop-mode, and edited the values for GPM in gconf-editor to suspend at 10% battery.
Nothing seems to work.
every time this boots now, I get that message. If I hit cancel, then the screen locks and the mouse moves but nothing happens. The only way to get it show the desktop, is to select 'logout anyway'
Plus the boot takes forever at least 4 times longer than karmic.
all of this is in reference to booting up the PC
my laptop has a bad power connector on the motherboard so its constantly making the "power manager" box pop up and it annoys the hell out of me. since its loose it will keep popping up over and over. i either have to click the webpage to put it in the background or click "ok" or "cancel" 20 times to close them all. i like the dark grey box that pops up in the corner but the one in the middle of the screen sucks. is there someway to disable it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm not using one atm, tried "exec startxfce4" in my .xinitrc but didn't work.
System is Debian Stretch.
Since update-manager was removed from Debian Jessie, I am looking for something similar or a way to install update-manager for 8.2. I would like a GUI.
I have tried gnome-packagekit, but some of the commands don't appear to work or it seems incomplete and I don't know of a way to test to make sure that it is working.
Other sites recommended to use smartpm. However, I cannot seem to find the plugin xfce4-smartpm-plugin in [Xfce Goodies] that would work as a notifier.
Unattended-upgrades does not meet my specifications, because to my knowledge there is no GUI configuration for this.
Though Debian Jessie is a great distro, I am finding it difficult to recommend to some newer users because it does lack a GUI updater/notifier at this time.
I recently decided to install xfce-desktop as a fallback alternative whenever Gnome 3 has problems. Now I have the Thunar file manager opening up by default even when logged into Gnome (for example when using Alt-F2 and typing in a folder name, or when plugging in an iPod.) I've searched around for days but can't find any place to set a default file manager. The Default Applications dialogue doesn't include file manager, only web browser, video etc.)
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to install a different windows manager? Currently I am using an HP Netbook 210. The windows manager I am using is "gnome-shell" that comes as default with Fedora 15. However, I am wondering if I could completely remove this and install a different windows manager, such as Xfce 4.8. I am not talking about completely removing Fedora 15 and then installing Fedora 15 xfce spin. Just the window manager. How easy would it be to remove the gnome-shell windows manager and then install xfce 4.8 windows manager? Any steps to do this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedSince upgrading to 10.04 (from 9.10) 2 days ago, I have been getting an error message whenever I log in. It tells me that 'Power manager is still running' and gives me options of 'logout anyway' or 'cancel' (I'm writing this from memory, so may have got the wording slightly wrong). Clicking 'logout anyway', then continues with the login process, with no further problems (as an aside, I am running a desktop, so I'm not sure that Power Manager has much to do anyway.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen the pc is powered up it takes ages for the login screen to come up and after that it hangs then comes up with a power manager is not responding fault, when I get into the desktop it takes ages for the top bar to appear and I noticed that the wireless usb dongle takes ages to connect. USB hang at boot? I have recently installed a usb printer. Weirdly a reboot fixes the issue, it seems to be at times the very first boot up where the problem arises.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSystem: Ubuntu 9.10, upgraded from previous versions
Architecture:64 bit
Filesystem:EXT4
DE:Gnome
Occurance of the problem: After using GParted to move unallocated space to a ntfs-filesystem. Yep. I did it again. No oops this time, for I have no clue why this error appeared and why I cant get to my desktop. No recent updates that couldve borked the system.Lately I have had to work quite a bit with some Windows-only programs, and I found myself out of harddisk space pretty soon, as for the last year or two, I worked almost exclusively with Ubuntu and only had a minimally sized partition set up for Windows. I needed room. No problem, I thought, I will start up GParted, move some of the unallocated space to the NTFS partition and be done with it. I have performed tasks like that before, so no problem should occur.
After rebooting I got to the grub menu. All options were there. Looks nice. Except for the fact that Windows did not want to start, some MSDK (sorry, did not write down the name) file or whatever was missing. (I heard this is a Vista problem and the file connected to the error does not even exist on any XP system). Worse than XP not starting was the error message I got from my login screen.
"The configuration defaults for gnome-power-manager have not been loaded. Please contact your administrator."
So I did. I talked to myself and had to admit to the user that I did not have a solution at hand. User upset, administrator too. (They are no longer talking to each other.) Login is accepted, but after that nothing. Just a black screen with a mouse-pointer that can be moved around. Nada mas. Before getting to the login screen, there was something else that drew my attention, but again, I did not know what it meant. The error-message:
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16 is udevd [527]: NAME: "%k" is superfluous and breaks kernel supplied names, please move it from /etc/udev/rules.d/51-hso-udev.rules:124
* stopping the Firestarter firewall...
9.10: clean, 467963/3055616 files, 8323370/12205383 blocks
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SuperGrub. It allowed me to boot, but thats it. No further steps taken, if only because SuperGrub does not support the EXT4 filesystem (yet?).I have heard people were able to get to their desktop after receiving this error by using a root account they had previously created. I dont have one, so that would not work.So, I did the three finger salute, stopped the gdm from the terminal, moved gconfd to somewhere else, hoping a new file would be created and the problem would be solved with that, but no. Restarted gdm, it worked but the problem remained.
Ok. Perhaps a reinstall of the GDM might work, I thought. Well, it might, but the problem is I have no internet connection and the usual way I connect my laptop is through phone-tethering. Not having a desktop will not allow me to make a connection.So, sudo apt-get --reinstall install gnome-power-manager did not work as an active connection is required. Also I dont know if that is going to solve the problem.So now I am in the dark. I have booted up a live CD, mounted my HD partition in order to check my /root/.Xauthority, but I could not even find the file.
I refuse to believe there is a serious problem with my Ubuntu install. As far as I can see, there is a problem with some config-files but the system itself looks OK. Reinstalling is preferably not an option, as I love my install and have been working with it for a long time now, with lots of user data on it as well. Also, I have not seperated /HOME, which makes a reinstall a bit of a drag. I am certain there is an easy fix somewhere, someway, but I would need some advice from someone more knowledgable than I am. The only thing I could think of is to find a way to reinstall gnome-power-manager without an active connection. I can download the .deb file with some other device than my laptop but I would not know how to add that to /etc/apt/sources.list. Also, I kind of doubt that the problem lies within a faulty power-manager.
I'm running 2.6.35 on a macbook Air. Since Hal is being deprecated I got rid of it but now I cannot control brightness with the keyboard.Looking at the code on gnome-power-manager, if it doesn't find hal it defaults to xrandr, but I couldn't find a way of controlling brightness with xrandr. Also, I don't see any keybindings on XF86MonBrightness{Down,UP} with gnome-keybindings-properties.I'm loading mactel's nvidia_bl module which creates /sys/class/backlight/nvidia_backlight and from there I can just adjust brightness by editing the corresponding file.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter running a backup script, but previously deleting old downloads and files from the rubbish bin, I then logged out. When logging back in later I got the Ubuntu loading screen as normal, but then instead of the Ubuntu login I got another login screen that I have not seen before; black background with the login screen in the middle.
I tried to login in, but all I got was an error message saying 'Install problem - The configuration defaults for Gnome power manager have not been installed correctly. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and had a stable system.
Have not been installed correctly.
This message comes up as I am logging into my account. Upon entering my password it goes back to the logon screen.
Booting into recovery mode and different kernels doesn't help.