Gnome-power-manager no icon is being displayed

Hi.
I've recently upgraded to Gnome 2.18 from testing and noticed that gnome-power-manager does not display icon for my battery. I've chcecked options and everything seems to be fine. The process itself is also running. After couple of tests I've managed to show icon (killed process and re-run it with --no-daemon option) but after restart the icon was missing. Lshal shows my battery withouth any problem. Does anyone have similar problem??? My system is up-to-date, updated everyday.

In this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31193
JGC wrote:The gnome-power-manager thing is something that appeared after switching to the GtkStatusIcon API. This bug appears because gnome-power-manager starts before the notification area is placed on the panel.
This problem has been picked up already, so perhaps something's already being done before 2.18 goes to the extra repository.

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Hello,
With the recent influx of GNOME 2.22 packages, gnome-power-manager has begun to behave strangely on my system.
In gnome-power-preferences, I have specified that the notification area icon should only be displayed when my laptop battery is charging or discharging. Since I upgraded my GNOME packages, the icon has always appeared in my notication area upon login -- even if I am running on AC power. In that situation, the tooltip for the icon reads as follows:
Computer is running on AC power
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Battery discharge time is currently unknown
If I unplug the power cord from my computer, the icon (strangely) disappears. If I then proceed to plug the cord back in, the icon will appear briefly (I assume to indicate that what little power was drained from the battery is being replenished) and then disappear once more.
This problem is occurring on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (E1505). I feel that I might need to report this issue as a bug, but I'd first like to know if anyone else has noticed this oddity since the upgrade.
Thanks!
Edit:
It seems as if gnome-power-manager thinks that I have two laptop batteries (though I have only one). Clicking on the notification icon lists two batteries: one with the usual "on AC power" icon and the other with the "discharging" (standard battery) icon.
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Battery 1: charged, 100%
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Last edited by ssjlegendx (2008-04-20 18:34:53)

I just updated to HAL 0.5.11rc2-2, and it seems that my problem has been solved!
I didn't see the related bug report before starting this thread.... Thanks, JGC!
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After the upgrade to gnome-power-manager 2.26.1-1 today, my laptop screen backlight is being powered off constantly, after only about 1 minute. It's not the screen blanking, but the backlight going off. It comes right back up if I do anything on the keyboard.
My power management preferences haven't changed though. They're all set (as before the upgrade) to never dim the display and never put the display to sleep. So why is the backlight going off anyway?
Also, this pretty distinctly seems to have to do with Gnome and not X. If I leave the laptop for an extended period at the GDM login screen, the backlight is never powered off. The problem only develops after I have logged into Gnome.
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Last edited by cb474 (2009-04-23 07:14:55)

Thanks, I looked for bugs on this, but didn't find that one on the backlight for some reason. I was about to issue my own bug report. Anyway, so I added my comments to the bug report, but it has been marked "fixed" already (because it was really addressing a slightly different issue with DPMS), so I don't know if I need to start a new bug report or not. I'll wait and see what kind of reply I get. (In fact, it seems like the fix to the problem in the backlight bug report may have caused the problem addressed in this thread.)
That said, I found a work around, if you want to completely disable the backlight ever going off. You can issue the command:
xset -dpms
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xset -dpms
This is working.
You can also configue DPMS in xorg.conf, but I'm not using xorg.conf so I didn't fiddle with it. See: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DPMS and http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html.
Hope that helps.
Last edited by cb474 (2009-04-24 08:26:23)

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since the last update, the gnome power manager applet is gone. I can change the preferences with the gnome-power-preferences tool, but the applet in the system bar is gone... Any idea?
Acker

Master One wrote:
So what's going on?
I do not assume, that users of other distros have such problems, at least in Foresight Linux the applet is working as supposed to, which confirms that it's not an upstream problem. There is a bug open, but no info about any progress.
Is anybody working on a fix?
Jan de Groot has been assigned to this task a few days ago. Jan works on 580 open tasks, most of which have a higher priority then this bug.
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What's with the Gnome 2.18.1 updates (though the working version of the Gnome Power Manager in Foresight Linux is 2.18.2 as well)?
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same problem here..
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if I try to suspend from the gnome-power-manager icon, it get me to the screen saver, and the "Sleep Problem" message popups.
I have only installed pm-utils, and made the "resume=/path/to/swap" modify in grub's menu.lst .. no other configs or modifications made by me..
edit I've just tried hibernate (sudo pm-hibernate) and it works fine too.. obviously it doesn't work by the gnome-power-manager icon.
Last edited by Berseker (2008-05-13 11:30:52)

[SOLVED] gnome-power-manager ignores dpms_method_ac

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i'd like to put my monitor in standby after a while instead of simply blank and so i set dpms_method_ac in gconf accordingly... but with no success...
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Identifier "Monitor0"
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thanx!
Last edited by euLinux (2009-07-29 07:02:14)

hi miau!
i changed my xorg.conf to match your suggestions... Option "DPMS" "true" moved in Monitor section and blanking and dpms settings in ServerLayout:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
Option "BlankTime" "0"
Option "StandbyTime" "10"
Option "SuspendTime" "15"
Option "OffTime" "20"
EndSection
i guess you suggested me to do this way, isn't it?
unfortunately it still doesn't work!
it seems that after login gnome-power-manager resets all the settings about dpms in xorg.conf... every section i put them in...
this is part of the output of xset q just after login:
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 600
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
any other idea?
thanx

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In this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31193
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