Regarding seeing battery levels from the GUI, I currently use fdpowermon. It polls the battery info from sysfs every few seconds via acpi.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 01:19:26AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > Last time I installed MATE in Debian it was not dependent on *systemd*. > > Maybe it is now, I haven't upgraded for some time. > > In jessie, you need systemd (but not systemd-sysv) for things like > shutdown, > reboot, suspend or hibernate from the GUI, seeing battery levels, being > able > to mount USB/etc drives, and probably more. > > > However, maybe they can be persuaded to remove that dependency if it is > > there. > > The dependency goes through the Utopia stack, maintained by some of most > zealous systemd proponents, so that would require quite some work on the > MATE side to fix this regression. > > Users and Devuan can simply rebuild stuff against ConsoleKit. For now. > > -- > // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately > // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple > // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all > // your writing needs, for Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory prices. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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