❦ 6 août 2012 23:52 CEST, Alexandru Băluț <[email protected]> :
>> Is gnome-power-manager (or xfce-power-manager) running?
>
> I looked in synaptic what executable files gnome-power-manager installs,
> and it has /usr/bin/gnome-power-statistics, but that's not running, and it
> does not seem to be an indicator anyway.
>
> Then I looked at:
> $ cat /usr/share/doc/gnome-power-manager/README
>
> and it sais about the daemon, which seems to be running:
> $ ps aux | grep gnome-settings-daemon
> aleb 10730 0.0 0.2 991164 21752 ? Sl 08:18 0:18
> /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
>
> and about the app for configuration, which I tried:
> $ gnome-control-center -v
> then went to "Power" and I tried setting "Show battery status in the menu
> bar" from an empty value to "When battery is present" or "When battery is
> charging/in use" or "Never", but none of these are saved.. when I come back
> the field is again empty. No (error) message is printed in the console.
>
> I could reinstall gnome-power-manager..
I also remember that it was merged into gnome-settings-daemon. I don't
know how to solve exactly your problem but you could:
- use xfce4-power-manager instead
- use a battery widget instead
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