ANNOUNCE: xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4 released

[Ali Abdallah-2]

xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4 is now available for download from
 
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.tar.bz2
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.tar.bz2.md5
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.tar.bz2.sha1

  SHA1 checksum: 02cdf45e40f974539f678fb177cba12a0b846217
   MD5 checksum: 324be9320d8fae2b91a6111830465b0d


What is xfce4-power-manager?
============================

This software is a power manager for the Xfce desktop, Xfce power
manager manages the power sources on the computer and the devices that
can be controlled to reduce their power consumption (such as LCD
brightness level, monitor sleep, CPU frequency scaling). In addition,
xfce4-power-manager provides a set of freedesktop-compliant DBus
interfaces to inform other applications about current power level so
that they can adjust their power consumption, and it provides the
inhibit interface which allows applications to prevent automatic sleep
actions via the power manager; as an example, the operating system’s
package manager should make use of this interface while it is performing
update operations.

Website:
  http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-power-manager


Release notes for 0.8.4
=======================

- Don't lock screen on lid event when multiple monitor are connected.
- Force DPMSModeOff on lid close event if it is not done in Hardware.
- Fix a crash in set_client_id (bug #5673).
- Reduce memory usage.

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[Yves-Alexis Perez-2]

On mar, 2009-09-29 at 07:21 +0000, Ali Abdallah wrote:
> xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4 is now available for download from
>  
>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.tar.bz2
>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.tar.bz2.md5
>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.tar.bz2.sha1
>
>   SHA1 checksum: 02cdf45e40f974539f678fb177cba12a0b846217
>    MD5 checksum: 324be9320d8fae2b91a6111830465b0d

It seems you had time problems:

dpkg-source: info: building xfce4-power-manager using existing
xfce4-power-manager_0.8.4.orig.tar.gz
tar: xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4/po/Makefile.in.in: time stamp 2009-09-29
09:18:54 is 5134.183918907 s in the future

and:
checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly
created file is older than distributed files!

Not very grave, I just have to wait 1h30 before building it ;p (no I
won't change my clock!)

Did you have time to think about the battery-plugin merge stuff, btw?

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[Ali Abdallah-2]

Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

> On mar, 2009-09-29 at 07:21 +0000, Ali Abdallah wrote:
>  
>> xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4 is now available for download from
>>  
>>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.tar.bz2
>>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.tar.bz2.md5
>>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.tar.bz2.sha1
>>
>>   SHA1 checksum: 02cdf45e40f974539f678fb177cba12a0b846217
>>    MD5 checksum: 324be9320d8fae2b91a6111830465b0d
>>    
>
> It seems you had time problems:
>
> dpkg-source: info: building xfce4-power-manager using existing
> xfce4-power-manager_0.8.4.orig.tar.gz
> tar: xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4/po/Makefile.in.in: time stamp 2009-09-29
> 09:18:54 is 5134.183918907 s in the future
>
> and:
> checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly
> created file is older than distributed files!
>
> Not very grave, I just have to wait 1h30 before building it ;p (no I
> won't change my clock!)
>
> Did you have time to think about the battery-plugin merge stuff, btw?
>  

I just arrived from my vacation (i think this is the cause of the time
problem). I didn't have time to think about the battery-plugin, for me
of course i will be happy to merge it, i remember that Nick agreed on
that, but Brian was against since anybody wants to use the battery
plugin has to install xfpm, for this there is two options:

1) Split xfpm to xfpm and xfpm-plugins, but this will end up having
duplicated code (the code in libxfpm).
2) having an option in xfpm to build only the panel plugins, strange
option, i never saw a package like that before.

So i would say i'm ready to merge it whenever everybody is happy with that.


> Cheers,
>  

Cheers,
Ali.
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[Yves-Alexis Perez-2]

On mar, 2009-09-29 at 10:12 +0000, Ali Abdallah wrote:
> I just arrived from my vacation (i think this is the cause of the
> time
> problem). I didn't have time to think about the battery-plugin, for me
> of course i will be happy to merge it, i remember that Nick agreed on
> that, but Brian was against since anybody wants to use the battery
> plugin has to install xfpm, for this there is two options:
>
> 1) Split xfpm to xfpm and xfpm-plugins, but this will end up having
> duplicated code (the code in libxfpm).

Yeah, not really good.

> 2) having an option in xfpm to build only the panel plugins, strange
> option, i never saw a package like that before.

Hmhm, yeah, maybe not.
>
> So i would say i'm ready to merge it whenever everybody is happy with
> that.

TBH, the battery plugin is just not maintained nowadays. There was a
hal_based branch at one point but there wasn't any release. Having a
battery plugin inside xfpm might benefit for xfpm (imho it's really
painful not being able to display battery percentage atm).

It may be worth still having a standalone “simple” battery plugin, but
as the previous one can't deal with multiple batteries and the new
hal_based is not released…

What do you think?

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[Ali Abdallah-2]

Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

> On mar, 2009-09-29 at 10:12 +0000, Ali Abdallah wrote:
>  
>> I just arrived from my vacation (i think this is the cause of the
>> time
>> problem). I didn't have time to think about the battery-plugin, for me
>> of course i will be happy to merge it, i remember that Nick agreed on
>> that, but Brian was against since anybody wants to use the battery
>> plugin has to install xfpm, for this there is two options:
>>
>> 1) Split xfpm to xfpm and xfpm-plugins, but this will end up having
>> duplicated code (the code in libxfpm).
>>    
>
> Yeah, not really good.
>
>  
>> 2) having an option in xfpm to build only the panel plugins, strange
>> option, i never saw a package like that before.
>>    
>
> Hmhm, yeah, maybe not.
>  
>> So i would say i'm ready to merge it whenever everybody is happy with
>> that.
>>    
>
> TBH, the battery plugin is just not maintained nowadays. There was a
> hal_based branch at one point but there wasn't any release. Having a
> battery plugin inside xfpm might benefit for xfpm (imho it's really
> painful not being able to display battery percentage atm).
>
> It may be worth still having a standalone “simple” battery plugin, but
> as the previous one can't deal with multiple batteries and the new
> hal_based is not released…
>
> What do you think?
>
>  

I think it is a better idea to give the option to the users to use the
battery plugin without having to install xfpm, i would say i'm ready to
code a standalone battery plugin based of devicekit power, i think this
is the best option.

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[Yves-Alexis Perez-2]

On mar, 2009-09-29 at 10:33 +0000, Ali Abdallah wrote:
> I think it is a better idea to give the option to the users to use the
> battery plugin without having to install xfpm, i would say i'm ready to
> code a standalone battery plugin based of devicekit power, i think this
> is the best option.

Yeah maybe. Anyway with dbus stuff, it's possible to send messages to
xfpm (I mean, to the org.PowerManagement or something, client on dbus)
if it's running.

Thanks for your work, though

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[Steve Dodier-2]

Thanks for that release, Ali.
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:21:20 +0000 (UTC)
Ali Abdallah <aliov@...> wrote:

> xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4 is now available...
>   <snippage>
> Release notes for 0.8.4
> =======================
>
> - Don't lock screen on lid event when multiple monitor are connected.
> - Force DPMSModeOff on lid close event if it is not done in Hardware.
> - Fix a crash in set_client_id (bug #5673).
> - Reduce memory usage.


Someone in #xfce on IRC (I forgot who) reported that the systray
icon no longer showed up in 0.8.4, and now that I've finally
found time to upgrade here, I can duplicate it.  Fulld debug info
doesn't appear to have anything useful, but here it is just in case:

liberty $ xfce4-power-manager --no-daemon                                                          
TRACE[xfpm-main.c:80] xfpm_start(): Starting the power manager
TRACE[xfpm-adapter.c:95] xfpm_adapter_set_device(): Found AC Adapter with udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_ac_adapter_AC

TRACE[xfpm-adapter.c:149] xfpm_adapter_init(): System is identified as a laptop
TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:154] xfpm_xfconf_load(): Using default configuration for show-brightness-popup
TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:154] xfpm_xfconf_load(): Using default configuration for change-brightness-on-key-events
TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:154] xfpm_xfconf_load(): Using default configuration for power-button-action
TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:154] xfpm_xfconf_load(): Using default configuration for hibernate-button-action
TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:154] xfpm_xfconf_load(): Using default configuration for sleep-button-action
TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:154] xfpm_xfconf_load(): Using default configuration for inactivity-sleep-mode
TRACE[xfpm-engine.c:426] xfpm_engine_set_inactivity_timeouts(): setting inactivity sleep timeout on ac to never
TRACE[xfpm-engine.c:430] xfpm_engine_set_inactivity_timeouts(): setting inactivity sleep timeout on battery to never
TRACE[xfpm-cpu.c:253] xfpm_cpu_get_available_governors(): found CPU governor ondemand
TRACE[xfpm-cpu.c:253] xfpm_cpu_get_available_governors(): found CPU governor userspace

(xfce4-power-manager:8103): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: No convenient cpu governors found on the system, cpu frequency control will be disabled
TRACE[xfpm-supply.c:479] xfpm_supply_add_battery(): New battery found /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_battery_BAT0
TRACE[xfpm-battery.c:522] xfpm_battery_refresh(): Battery status is_present TRUE is_charging FALSE is_discharging FALSE
TRACE[xfpm-battery.c:525] xfpm_battery_refresh(): Battery info precentage 96 last_full 56710 current_charge 54490 time_per 0
TRACE[xfpm-battery.c:428] xfpm_battery_refresh_primary(): Start
TRACE[xfpm-battery.c:440] xfpm_battery_refresh_primary(): battery state : ((XfpmBatteryState) BATTERY_NOT_FULLY_CHARGED)
TRACE[xfpm-battery.c:365] xfpm_battery_refresh_common(): battery state change : ((XfpmBatteryState) BATTERY_NOT_FULLY_CHARGED)
TRACE[xfpm-battery.c:366] xfpm_battery_refresh_common(): Emitting signal battery state changed
TRACE[xfpm-supply.c:249] xfpm_supply_refresh_tray_icon(): Tray icon configuration:  : ((XfpmShowIcon) SHOW_ICON_ALWAYS)
TRACE[xfpm-supply.c:249] xfpm_supply_refresh_tray_icon(): Tray icon configuration:  : ((XfpmShowIcon) SHOW_ICON_ALWAYS)
TRACE[xfpm-button-xf86.c:179] xfpm_button_xf86_xevent_key(): Grabbed key 124 : ((XfpmButtonKey) BUTTON_POWER_OFF)

(xfce4-power-manager:8103): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: could not map keysym 1008ffa8 to keycode

TRACE[xfpm-button-xf86.c:179] xfpm_button_xf86_xevent_key(): Grabbed key 213 : ((XfpmButtonKey) BUTTON_HIBERNATE)
TRACE[xfpm-button-xf86.c:179] xfpm_button_xf86_xevent_key(): Grabbed key 150 : ((XfpmButtonKey) BUTTON_SLEEP)
TRACE[xfpm-button-xf86.c:179] xfpm_button_xf86_xevent_key(): Grabbed key 233 : ((XfpmButtonKey) BUTTON_MON_BRIGHTNESS_UP)
TRACE[xfpm-button-xf86.c:179] xfpm_button_xf86_xevent_key(): Grabbed key 232 : ((XfpmButtonKey) BUTTON_MON_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN)
TRACE[xfpm-brightness-hal.c:187] xfpm_brightness_hal_setup(): Found laptop_panel with udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_backlight

TRACE[xfpm-brightness-hal.c:166] xfpm_brightness_hal_get_device(): laptop_panel.num_levels=15

TRACE[xfpm-brightness-hal.c:192] xfpm_brightness_hal_setup(): Current hw level =15


*****
Update... (yes, I pasted all this and then messed with it some more).
*****

After messing with the "when to show an icon" settings some more,
the icon has magically appeared.  Note that it was *already* supposed
to "Always Show Icon" -- all I did was select the other options one
by one, eventually re-selecting "Always Show Icon" before closing
the settings dialog.  Here's what scrolled through the debug output
while I did all this:

TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:181] xfpm_xfconf_property_changed_cb(): Property modified: /xfce4-power-manager/dpms-enabled

TRACE[xfpm-dpms.c:207] xfpm_dpms_settings_changed_cb(): Configuration changed
TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:181] xfpm_xfconf_property_changed_cb(): Property modified: /xfce4-power-manager/dpms-enabled

TRACE[xfpm-dpms.c:207] xfpm_dpms_settings_changed_cb(): Configuration changed
TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:181] xfpm_xfconf_property_changed_cb(): Property modified: /xfce4-power-manager/general-notification

TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:181] xfpm_xfconf_property_changed_cb(): Property modified: /xfce4-power-manager/general-notification

TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:181] xfpm_xfconf_property_changed_cb(): Property modified: /xfce4-power-manager/show-tray-icon

TRACE[xfpm-supply.c:249] xfpm_supply_refresh_tray_icon(): Tray icon configuration:  : ((XfpmShowIcon) SHOW_ICON_WHEN_BATTERY_PRESENT)
TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:181] xfpm_xfconf_property_changed_cb(): Property modified: /xfce4-power-manager/show-tray-icon

TRACE[xfpm-supply.c:249] xfpm_supply_refresh_tray_icon(): Tray icon configuration:  : ((XfpmShowIcon) SHOW_ICON_WHEN_BATTERY_CHARGING_DISCHARGING)
TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:181] xfpm_xfconf_property_changed_cb(): Property modified: /xfce4-power-manager/show-tray-icon

TRACE[xfpm-supply.c:249] xfpm_supply_refresh_tray_icon(): Tray icon configuration:  : ((XfpmShowIcon) NEVER_SHOW_ICON)
TRACE[xfpm-xfconf.c:181] xfpm_xfconf_property_changed_cb(): Property modified: /xfce4-power-manager/show-tray-icon

TRACE[xfpm-supply.c:249] xfpm_supply_refresh_tray_icon(): Tray icon configuration:  : ((XfpmShowIcon) SHOW_ICON_ALWAYS)


Oddly enough, killing xfpm and restarting it results in the same
problem.  Perhaps related to this commit?

commit 73f412645e0d67ad9039f7572892f844dbb9a915
Author: Ali Abdallah <ali@...>
Date:   Mon Aug 31 10:08:09 2009 +0000

    Put the icon prefix in one place+get rid of a useless icon load function

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[Liviu Andronic]

On 10/9/09, Robby Workman <rw@...> wrote:
> Someone in #xfce on IRC (I forgot who) reported that the systray
>  icon no longer showed up in 0.8.4, and now that I've finally
>  found time to upgrade here, I can duplicate it.  Fulld debug info
>  doesn't appear to have anything useful, but here it is just in case:
>
Initially the trayicon was missing here, too. The quick fix was to
access Power options in the Xfce Settings, and hitting "yes" when
asked whether to run xfpm. Upon restart the icon always appears now.
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[Ali Abdallah-2]

Robby Workman wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:21:20 +0000 (UTC)
> Ali Abdallah <aliov@...> wrote:
>
>  
>> xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4 is now available...
>>   <snippage>
>> Release notes for 0.8.4
>> =======================
>>
>> - Don't lock screen on lid event when multiple monitor are connected.
>> - Force DPMSModeOff on lid close event if it is not done in Hardware.
>> - Fix a crash in set_client_id (bug #5673).
>> - Reduce memory usage.
>>    
>
>
> Someone in #xfce on IRC (I forgot who) reported that the systray
> icon no longer showed up in 0.8.4, and now that I've finally
> found time to upgrade here, I can duplicate it.  Fulld debug info
> doesn't appear to have anything useful, but here it is just in case:
>
>
>  

What was the previous version used? there is no change regarding this in
0.8.4.

>
> Oddly enough, killing xfpm and restarting it results in the same
> problem.  Perhaps related to this commit?
>
> commit 73f412645e0d67ad9039f7572892f844dbb9a915
> Author: Ali Abdallah <ali@...>
> Date:   Mon Aug 31 10:08:09 2009 +0000
>
>     Put the icon prefix in one place+get rid of a useless icon load function
>  

The icon load function is replaced with xfce_themed_icon_load, the icon
prefix shouldn't be a problem, well if it is, it should show up in all
the installation since including my system.

If you are still having this problem, please file a bug report.

> -RW
>  

Thanks,
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:24:58 +0000
Ali Abdallah <aliov@...> wrote:

> Robby Workman wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:21:20 +0000 (UTC)
> > Ali Abdallah <aliov@...> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >> xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4 is now available...
> >>   <snippage>
> >> Release notes for 0.8.4
> >> =======================
> >>
> >> - Don't lock screen on lid event when multiple monitor are
> >> connected.
> >> - Force DPMSModeOff on lid close event if it is not done in
> >> Hardware.
> >> - Fix a crash in set_client_id (bug #5673).
> >> - Reduce memory usage.
> >>    
> >
> >
> > Someone in #xfce on IRC (I forgot who) reported that the systray
> > icon no longer showed up in 0.8.4, and now that I've finally
> > found time to upgrade here, I can duplicate it.  Fulld debug info
> > doesn't appear to have anything useful, but here it is just in case:
> >
> >
> >  
> What was the previous version used? there is no change regarding this
> in 0.8.4.

Previous version was 0.8.3.1.

> > Oddly enough, killing xfpm and restarting it results in the same
> > problem.  Perhaps related to this commit?
> >
> > commit 73f412645e0d67ad9039f7572892f844dbb9a915
> > Author: Ali Abdallah <ali@...>
> > Date:   Mon Aug 31 10:08:09 2009 +0000
> >
> >     Put the icon prefix in one place+get rid of a useless icon load
> > function
> The icon load function is replaced with xfce_themed_icon_load, the
> icon prefix shouldn't be a problem, well if it is, it should show up
> in all the installation since including my system.
>
> If you are still having this problem, please file a bug report.

Well, the problem is gone as of 0.8.4.1, but I don't see any change
from 0.8.4 to 0.8.4.1 that would make a difference, so I guess I'll
just call this one "weird" and move on.  :-)

-RW


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[Ali Abdallah-2]

Robby Workman wrote:

>
>> The icon load function is replaced with xfce_themed_icon_load, the
>> icon prefix shouldn't be a problem, well if it is, it should show up
>> in all the installation since including my system.
>>
>> If you are still having this problem, please file a bug report.
>>    
>
>
> Well, the problem is gone as of 0.8.4.1, but I don't see any change
> from 0.8.4 to 0.8.4.1 that would make a difference, so I guess I'll
> just call this one "weird" and move on.  :-)
>  

Same problem reported to me by a Slackware user, he tried different
combination and he ends up upgrading to Slackware current packages and
the problem was resolved, i think the problem isn't related to xfpm
versions, but i didn't find which upgrade made the difference from the
Slackware ChangeLog either, but okay it works now.

> -RW
>  

Cheers,
Ali.
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