Created attachment 3715 Power Manager setting "Spin down hard disks" on AC Using Xubuntu 11.04. Tried many times to set "Spin down hard disks" on both AC and Battery panel, but the box is not checked when re-opening the Power Manager. See attached. Power Manager setting "Spin down hard disks" works if using Gnome or KDE.
Created attachment 3716 Power Manager setting "Spin down hard disks" on Battery
This bug have been fixed already, it seems that you are not running the 1.1.10 please attach the output of: xfce4-power-manager -V
$ xfce4-power-manager -V Xfce Power Manager 1.0.10 Part of the Xfce Goodies Project http://goodies.xfce.org Licensed under the GNU GPL. ---- I'm using XFCE latest update as provided in Xubuntu 11.04. It seems that Xubuntu 11.04 ships with an older Xfce Power Manager. How can i get the latest?
My problem is that i'm not able to reproduce here with the same setup as yours, can you please re-run the test and report back.
Hi Ali, Here below the result of "xfce4-power-manager -V" run in terminal: ---- $ xfce4-power-manager -V Xfce Power Manager 1.0.10 Part of the Xfce Goodies Project http://goodies.xfce.org Licensed under the GNU GPL. ---- I'm using Xubuntu 11.04 (latest version) fully updated, and it seems the xfce4-power-manager distributed with Xubuntu 11.04 is the 1.0.10. You say xfce4-power-manager 1.1.10 fixes this bug, but Xubuntu repository does not contain this xfce4-power-manager 1.1.10. Can this xfce4-power-manager 1.1.10 be included in Ubuntu/Xubuntu software repository for updates?
Also http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-power-manager offer version 1.0.10.
(In reply to comment #6) > Also http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-power-manager offer > version 1.0.10. Yes, the correct version is 1.0.10, i was wrong. can you try to close the power manager: xfce4-power-manager -q then delete its configuration file: rm $HOME/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-power-manager.xml the launch the power manager with: xfce4-power-manager --debug And then open the configuration dialog, check the "spin down on AC", then uncheck it and attach me the output of the power manager from the terminal. (Also run 'whereis xfce4-power-manager-settings' and attach me the output here)
This is the xfce4-power-manager.xml before applying your troubleshooting: ---- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <channel name="xfce4-power-manager" version="1.0"> <property name="xfce4-power-manager" type="empty"> <property name="power-button-action" type="empty"/> <property name="spin-down-on-ac" type="bool" value="true"/> <property name="lid-action-on-ac" type="uint" value="0"/> <property name="dpms-on-ac-sleep" type="uint" value="0"/> <property name="critical-power-action" type="uint" value="2"/> <property name="lid-action-on-battery" type="uint" value="0"/> <property name="spin-down-on-battery" type="bool" value="true"/> <property name="dpms-on-battery-sleep" type="uint" value="0"/> <property name="inactivity-sleep-mode" type="string" value="Hibernate"/> <property name="dpms-sleep-mode" type="string" value="suspend"/> </property> </channel> ---- spin-down- attribute values are already set to true. I followed your instructions, attached thefiles you need. The spin-down- check boxes not showing checked.
Created attachment 3767 Debug results
Created attachment 3768 Whereis results
The new xfce4-power-manager.xml looks as below: ---- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <channel name="xfce4-power-manager" version="1.0"> <property name="xfce4-power-manager" type="empty"> <property name="power-button-action" type="empty"/> <property name="lid-action-on-ac" type="uint" value="0"/> <property name="inactivity-on-ac" type="uint" value="14"/> <property name="spin-down-on-ac" type="bool" value="true"/> <property name="critical-power-action" type="uint" value="2"/> <property name="lid-action-on-battery" type="uint" value="0"/> <property name="inactivity-on-battery" type="uint" value="14"/> <property name="spin-down-on-battery" type="bool" value="true"/> <property name="inactivity-sleep-mode" type="string" value="Hibernate"/> </property> </channel> ----
You right, the problem still exists in the 1.0.10, i thought that the fix went already into this release, will release a bug fix version that will go shortly into the xubuntu repository. The commit that fixes the problem is: (http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/commit/?id=f7a48533e198f3bb8d1ff5cffc1d2ec3bfdca6e6) Thanks.