Created attachment 6114 broken Power Manager settings After upgrading system to XFCE 4.12 Power manager settings doesn't have any more ability to set correct actions for power buttons. Pictures in attach for explanation. And there is no battery power manager icon in tray. After upgrade, but before i made choice in dropdown list with suspend button actions(before upgrade the suspend option was in list), button had correct action and netbook was suspended successfully(but with a bug: ). After upgrade there is only two actions for all powersave dropdown lists: Nothing and Ask. It's freaky not right when actions can works correct, but not listed at all. Section with settings of idle countdown not active at all(see attachment). My system: System: Linux Mint 17 Qiana xfce4.12 Kernel: i686 Linux 3.13.0-24-generic CPU: Intel Atom CPU N450 @ 1.667GHz Video driver: Kernel driver i915 Graphic processor: VGA compatible Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org X Server 1.15.1 Xfce Power Manager 1.4.3 Last installed packages during upgrade: http://pastie.org/10045488
How did you upgrade the power manager? And what version are you using exactly? (4.12 is only the version of the Xfce major release, the power manager has its own versioning scheme) The trayicon was dropped and then re-introduced in 1.4.4.
*netbook was suspended successfully(but with a bug: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11750
(In reply to Simon Steinbeiss from comment #1) > How did you upgrade the power manager? And what version are you using > exactly? (4.12 is only the version of the Xfce major release, the power > manager has its own versioning scheme) > > The trayicon was dropped and then re-introduced in 1.4.4. I'd dist-upgrade with this ppa: xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12 trusty And Xfce Power Manager 1.4.3 was installed.
This is not a bug in xfce4-power-manager but a system policy problem. The power manager seemingly doesn't have permissions to suspend or hibernate anymore, which is why those options aren't available in the UI. Using a PPA is something you do at your own risk. I suggest you revert to the version of xfce4-power-manager that was shipped with your distro in the first place.
(In reply to Simon Steinbeiss from comment #4) > This is not a bug in xfce4-power-manager but a system policy problem. The > power manager seemingly doesn't have permissions to suspend or hibernate > anymore, which is why those options aren't available in the UI. > > Using a PPA is something you do at your own risk. I suggest you revert to > the version of xfce4-power-manager that was shipped with your distro in the > first place. I think i found a problem source. It's all because systemd didn't start MDM automatically, and system booting hangs, and i had to start MDM manually from virtual tty console, and that is why the session was, somehow not enough authorized to do power and disks management. As workaround i switched to use LightDM instead MDM, and it starts fine, and power-manager options in their places.
Closing the report as invalid.