Created attachment 5165 Screenshot of wrong battery status icon When running a system with 2 batteries, ac adaptor disconnected, and one becomes empty, xfce4-power-manager shows charging icon on the empty battery, which is apparently wrong.
Created attachment 5166 Suggested fix When adding a new battery, modify its ac_online member flag, so the battery can change is tray icon to proper picture.
Any news about this?
Could you please look into testing the new panel plugin we're shipping in the 1.3 releases? It groups multiple batteries into one. I don't have two batteries, but I'd be curious whether that works better for you.
Just to be clear: I meant to say that there aren't multiple trayicons next to each other anymore, but that the devices all appear in a single menu together (but still as individual items).
I have xfce4-power-manager compiled from master, but I can't make it show the tray icon. It doesn't complain about missing icons, which is fine; but the icon is missing. I am testing it using Fedora 20. Packages installed: xfce4-panel-4.10.1-3.fc20.x86_64 Do I need to compile also the panel from sources, or am I doing something wrong? Thank you.
As I said, there is no more trayicon, it's a panel plugin now. So you have to manually add it to the panel (right-click the panel -> Add New Items -> Battery Indicator Plugin – or if you're building git master, Power Manager Plugin).
Yes, it seems to work fine. When the first battery is empty, the widget shows ~50% of remaining power, which is correct. Anyway, shouldn't the older xfce4-power-manager be fixed to work on older systems?
(In reply to Peter Hatina from comment #7) > Yes, it seems to work fine. > > When the first battery is empty, the widget shows ~50% of remaining power, > which is correct. Good to hear, marking the bug fixed then. > Anyway, shouldn't the older xfce4-power-manager be fixed to work on older > systems? So far we're not planning on backporting our fixes to xfpm 1.2 and I actually see little sense in that. Since there are no real breaks between 1.2 and the upcoming 1.4 your distributors should maybe consider shipping a newer version instead.