[xubuntu-users] Two power managers

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Fri Jan 27 16:15:21 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 03:28:11PM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:11:03PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 03:22:11PM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Recently I wrote to this list about my system having a bug when it comes out of suspend - it comes alive once, then it goes back to sleep straight away, then it comes alive again after I hit a key. This happens each time i bring it out of suspend since a recent upgrade.
> > > 
> > > The other day I noticed I appear to have two different power managers running (see attached image - there are two batteries on the left hand side). With a different icon set these are clearly different programs. One of them is xfce4's native power manager which I can right click on to get a menu. The other one gives me no info at all when I click it. I have grepped through 'ps auxwww' output and all kinds of things but I simply can't figure out what this other power manager is so I can stop it. I've also looked in my startup but I can't see anything there either.
> > > 
> > > Could this be something that got installed during a recent upgrade? Did Xubuntu change it's default power manager? I have 'start gnome services' checked - could this be a gnome thing and if so how do i stop it?
> > > 
> > I had two power managers installed before I did a recent re-install (as
> > opposed to upgrading).  I *think* one was the default Gnome one and the
> > other was the xfce one.
> > 
> > Have you looked in synaptic to see if there are two installed?
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Gnome's power manager isn't installed but the following things are:
> pm-utils
> powermgmt-base
> upower
> xfce4-power-manager
> xfce4-power-manager-data
> 
That all looks reasonable doesn't it!

> Is there some way I could be running two versions of xfce4-power-manager? Maybe one of the other packages is running the notification bar thing? Hmmm, strange.
> 
Possibly, I guess you could uninstall xfce4-power-manager and see if
both icons go away.

-- 
Chris Green




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