ANNOUNCE: xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4.1 released

[Ali Abdallah-2]

xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4.1 is now available for download from
 
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.1.tar.bz2
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.1.tar.bz2.md5
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-power-manager/0.8/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.4.1.tar.bz2.sha1

  SHA1 checksum: 3bbc941f13f69f5622c9ebfe0378e985d632493f
   MD5 checksum: ddb9bc27e34572c125ec008759a7bbad


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 0.8.4.1
=========================

- Because on some systems we might not have the brightness keys mapped.
  LCD brightness change are not reflected to xfpm when keys are pressed,
so
  save the actual brightness before dimming the screen on idle to
restore it
  afterword. (bug #5811).
- Check if DPMS is enabled before doing action on lid close event (bug
#5805).
- Allow 1% as a minimum critical charge level.
- Build fix with xextproto > 7.0.5 (bug #5897).

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[Jannis Pohlmann-3]

Hey Ali,

On Mon,  2 Nov 2009 08:33:11 +0000 (UTC)
Ali Abdallah <aliov@...> wrote:

> xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4.1 is now available for download from

This looks a lot better with regards to usability than previous
releases. Way to go!

It's not perfect though. E.g. I don't like the radio buttons on the
extended pane; I think those would better be aligned like this:

  Set computer to inactivity sleep mode:
    (O) Suspend   ( ) Hibernate

Or using a combo box like this:

  Set computer to inactivity sleep mode: [ Suspend    |v]

Other than that I really like what I see so far. Now I only need to
set up power management on the uswsusp side properly again to benefit
from it. ;)

Cheers,
Jannis


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[Yves-Alexis Perez-2]

On mar., 2009-11-03 at 01:56 +0100, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> Other than that I really like what I see so far. Now I only need to
> set up power management on the uswsusp side properly again to benefit
> from it. ;)

Personal note, but I'm not sure you want uswsusp. Kernel-side suspend
works pretty fine here, with KMS you don't even need any hooks.
Basically on my T61 I only use pm-suspend, which is called by hal, and
itself just do: echo mem > /sys/power/state

(I have more problem with hibernate, where suspend/resume is broken
after hibernation, I'd be interested if you could reproduce on your T61,
see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14365

Sorry for OT :)

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[Ali Abdallah-2]

Jannis Pohlmann wrote:

> Hey Ali,
>
> On Mon,  2 Nov 2009 08:33:11 +0000 (UTC)
> Ali Abdallah <aliov@...> wrote:
>
>  
>> xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4.1 is now available for download from
>>    
>
> This looks a lot better with regards to usability than previous
> releases. Way to go!
>  

Thanks, but there were not a lot of changes from 0.8.4 to 0.8.4.1.

> It's not perfect though. E.g. I don't like the radio buttons on the
> extended pane; I think those would better be aligned like this:
>
>   Set computer to inactivity sleep mode:
>     (O) Suspend   ( ) Hibernate
>
> Or using a combo box like this:
>
>   Set computer to inactivity sleep mode: [ Suspend    |v]
>  

This is doable, i don't know if it is for 0.8.* or on the devkit power
branch that i will upload soon.

> Other than that I really like what I see so far. Now I only need to
> set up power management on the uswsusp side properly again to benefit
> from it. ;)
>  
Hehe, on my side, new kernel version suspend is not working anymore :-(

> Cheers,
> Jannis
>  
>  

Cheers,
Ali.

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[Greg Folkert]

On 11/03/2009 02:48:05 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

> On mar., 2009-11-03 at 01:56 +0100, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > Other than that I really like what I see so far. Now I only need to
> > set up power management on the uswsusp side properly again to
> benefit
> > from it. ;)
>
> Personal note, but I'm not sure you want uswsusp. Kernel-side suspend
> works pretty fine here, with KMS you don't even need any hooks.
> Basically on my T61 I only use pm-suspend, which is called by hal,
> and
> itself just do: echo mem > /sys/power/state
>
> (I have more problem with hibernate, where suspend/resume is broken
> after hibernation, I'd be interested if you could reproduce on your
> T61,
> see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14365
>
> Sorry for OT :)

I've just confirmed I have a similar issue. Only a few differences in
the machine I have being a Lenovo T61 (6465CTO CTO THINKPAD T61
WIDESCREEN-3Y).

Only a few minor differeces in the `lspci -vxxx` and my attached usb
keyboard and such. dmesg_after is never created and I've also had a few
successful resumes, but nothing consistant.

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