Power manager: How do you stop it?

[Amichai Rotman]

Hey Marc,

I am not running Ubuntu on a laptop, so I am not sure...

Have you checked the Sessions applet from the Preffs menu?

I bet ther's a way to diable it from there.

Good Luck!


On 4/16/07, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
>
>
> The "new" gnome-power-manager in edgy - new in that it runs by default -
> stops my laptop from being able to suspend. I've always used
> klaptopdaemon, and this still works when I remove Power Manager
> manually. However, whenever I kill gnome-power-manager, it reappears
> when I login.
>
> Even more incomprehensibly, there is no access provided to the app's
> prefs from the applet. This is all (arguably) well and good when running
> gnome, when System/Prefs/Power Management is available, but when in KDE
> there is no access to the prefs without running gnome-power-preferences.
> And the prefs don't allow for the app to be neutered. Weird.
>
> Now, Linux is a mulituser system, so having KDE and gnome installed is
> really quite okay, so it really should be much better behaved, imo.
>
> Nevertheless, I would like to stop the thing from running, but I can't
> see what's running it. I've deleted the autostart entry in
> /usr/share/gnome/autostart, but still it returns relentlessly. I would
> remove the package (gnome-power-desktop), but that entails also removing
> gnome-session and ubuntu-dektop, neither of which I want to do.
>
> Any ideas? It's like trying to kill some Windows' services :-o
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Marc
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