[Fluxbox-users] No more xfce power manager. Alternatives?

[Time for some thrilling heroics.]

Google tells me that the xfce4-power-manager now requires
xfce4-power-manager-plugins for a notification icon; it also seems to
indicate this doesn't work in the fluxbox notification area. I am
getting OSD updates from it, though I'm not sure they're coming in
reliably, and it's (mostly) working to suspend/hibernate etc. (There are
some bug reports in my future, probably during a night of heavy
drinking, re: that, but nothing to do with fluxbox.)

The whole xfce-power-manager/fluxbox shebang was working fine for me on
my old laptop with Debian Wheezy; I've just gone to Jessie on a new one
w/ xfce4-power-manager 1.4.1-1 and can't get a visual on my battery
status for love nor money. Tried wmbattery and it sticks at whatever the
battery status was when I logged in, doesn't update. Same with the one
(I forget the package) that puts the green bar across the bottom of the
screen.

What are people using for power management & to keep an eye on battery
status these days? (Is there some necessary, and completely obvious,
package that I should be installing to make other battery monitors work?)

[Javier Vasquez]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Time for some thrilling heroics.

Post by Time for some thrilling heroics.
...
What are people using for power management & to keep an eye on battery
status these days? (Is there some necessary, and completely obvious,
package that I should be installing to make other battery monitors work?)

I'm not sure what others are using, but for monitoring, I only use
conky. I can read with it battery, temperature and others.

For suspending and such, I have menu entries in fluxbox. Withot
systemd my main entries were:

! [exec] (Suspend-Disk) {urxvt -pe -tabbed -e sudo local_s2disk.sh}
! [exec] (Suspend-Mem) {urxvt -pe -tabbed -e sudo local_s2ram.sh}
! [exec] (Reboot) {sudo shutdown -r now "Sutdown:
Rebooting now..."}
! [exec] (Shutdown) {sudo shutdown -h now "Shutdown:
Shuting down now..."}

% cat /usr/bin/local_s2ram.sh
#!/bin/env sh

echo "Suspending to RAM NOW..."
sync
swapoff -a
swapon -a
echo 'mem' > /sys/power/state

% cat /sr/bin/local_s2disk.sh
#!/bin/env sh

echo "Suspending to Disk NOW..."
sync
swapoff -a
swapon -a
telinit run ntp stop
echo 'disk' > /sys/power/state
telinit run ntp start

Telinit is a init system from sourceMage GNU/Linux. Now with systemd
on Arch and similar:

[exec] (Disk) {systemctl hibernate}
[exec] (Both) {systemctl hybrid-sleep}
[exec] (Mem) {systemctl suspend}

[exec] (Reboot) {systemctl reboot}
[exec] (PowerOff) {systemctl poweroff}

Though honestly I don't see the hybrid very useful so far...

For power savings settings, well there are many ways without using
laptop-mode and such any more. Most configs can be set with systemctl
directly and a init personal setting at boot plus udev...

Others might have other alternatives though, :-)

[e***@riseup.net]

I'm using pm-utils (+ samsung_tools) and xscreensaver for the pm
settings and conky to control and have an eye on it (have a look at
the mega conky thread in the crunchbang forum for examples and
possible settings.

In any case my system controls look like this:

----------------
TEXT
${color FA062A}S Y S T E M I N F O$color
${color FA062A}${hr}$color
Host:$alignr$nodename
Uptime:$alignr$uptime
RAM:$alignr$mem | $memmax
Swap use:$alignr$swap | $swapmax
Disk use root:$alignr${fs_used /} | ${fs_size /}
Disk use home:$alignr${fs_used /home} | ${fs_size /home}
CPU usage: $alignr${cpu cpu0}%
System temperature: $alignr${acpitemp}°
Battery/AC adapter:${alignr}${battery_percent BAT1}% | ${acpiacadapter
ACAD} ${if_up wlan0}WLAN: ${alignr}${wireless_essid wlan0} |
${wireless_link_qual wlan0}%${else}No wlan connection${endif} ${if_up
wlan0}UP | DOWN:${alignr}${upspeed wlan0} | ${downspeed
wlan0}${else}${endif} ${if_up eth0}ETH0 UP:${alignr}${upspeed eth0} |
DOWN:${downspeed eth0}${else}No ethernet connection present${endif}
--------------

HTH


Am Tue, 23 Dec 2014
13:08:23 +0100 schrieb "Time for some thrilling heroics."

Post by Time for some thrilling heroics.
Google tells me that the xfce4-power-manager now requires
xfce4-power-manager-plugins for a notification icon; it also seems to
indicate this doesn't work in the fluxbox notification area. I am
getting OSD updates from it, though I'm not sure they're coming in
reliably, and it's (mostly) working to suspend/hibernate etc. (There
are some bug reports in my future, probably during a night of heavy
drinking, re: that, but nothing to do with fluxbox.)
The whole xfce-power-manager/fluxbox shebang was working fine for me
on my old laptop with Debian Wheezy; I've just gone to Jessie on a
new one w/ xfce4-power-manager 1.4.1-1 and can't get a visual on my
battery status for love nor money. Tried wmbattery and it sticks at
whatever the battery status was when I logged in, doesn't update.
Same with the one (I forget the package) that puts the green bar
across the bottom of the screen.
What are people using for power management & to keep an eye on
battery status these days? (Is there some necessary, and completely
obvious, package that I should be installing to make other battery
monitors work?)
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