[opensuse-kde3] kpowersave is Greyed out as normal user??
Ilya, Robert, All, I am having a problem with kpowersave (battery monitor) on my laptop. It won't launch from the menu, but I can force it to start from the command line with: kpowersave & When it runs, it is greyed out and does not appear to be working correctly. Here is a screenshot of my kicker showing the greyed-out kpowersave: [12k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/bugs/114/kde3/kpowersave-greyed-out.jpg I'm not even sure what to check to try and troubleshoot. I'll try logging in as root and seeing what happens and report back. Do you have any other ideas of what I should look for to try and figure this one out? Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org
On 04/03/2011 06:43 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Ilya, Robert, All,
I am having a problem with kpowersave (battery monitor) on my laptop. It won't launch from the menu, but I can force it to start from the command line with:
kpowersave &
When it runs, it is greyed out and does not appear to be working correctly. Here is a screenshot of my kicker showing the greyed-out kpowersave:
[12k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/bugs/114/kde3/kpowersave-greyed-out.jpg
I'm not even sure what to check to try and troubleshoot. I'll try logging in as root and seeing what happens and report back. Do you have any other ideas of what I should look for to try and figure this one out? Thanks.
It is the same for root. Here are additional screenshots showing the tooltip and the kcmshell kdesktop kpowersave dialog: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/bugs/114/kde3/kpowersave-greyed-out-root.... http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/bugs/114/kde3/kpowersave-kdesktop.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 04 Apr 2011 02:17:59 David C. Rankin wrote:
On 04/03/2011 06:43 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Ilya, Robert, All,
I am having a problem with kpowersave (battery monitor) on my laptop. It won't launch from the menu, but I can force it to start from the command line with:
kpowersave &
When it runs, it is greyed out and does not appear to be working correctly. Here is a screenshot of my kicker showing the greyed-out kpowersave:
[12k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/bugs/114/kde3/kpowersave-greyed-out.jp g
I'm not even sure what to check to try and troubleshoot. I'll try logging in as root and seeing what happens and report back. Do you have any other ideas of what I should look for to try and figure this one out? Thanks.
It is the same for root. Here are additional screenshots showing the tooltip and the kcmshell kdesktop kpowersave dialog:
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/bugs/114/kde3/kpowersave-greyed-out-root .jpg
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/bugs/114/kde3/kpowersave-kdesktop.jpg
Powersave, the daemon that KPowersave configures, was phased out and replaced by various hal and then upower services. KPowersave is obsolete now. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org
On 04/04/2011 01:50 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:
Powersave, the daemon that KPowersave configures, was phased out and replaced by various hal and then upower services. KPowersave is obsolete now.
Bummer :( How will I know if my laptop battery is about to run out? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:43 PM, David C. Rankin
Bummer :(
How will I know if my laptop battery is about to run out?
Can you do: cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT#/* ? Replace # with 0 or 1. That's how I keep an eye on my battery on my old Thinkpad because it reports incorrectly, so it tries to shutdown with 50% power so I have to kill powersaved to keep using it. I open a small terminal and use watch with the above command. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org
On 04/06/2011 08:55 AM, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:43 PM, David C. Rankin
wrote: Bummer :(
How will I know if my laptop battery is about to run out?
Can you do:
cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT#/*
? Replace # with 0 or 1.
That's how I keep an eye on my battery on my old Thinkpad because it reports incorrectly, so it tries to shutdown with 50% power so I have to kill powersaved to keep using it.
I open a small terminal and use watch with the above command.
Thanks Larry, That will work in the interim until we get a fix in Trinity. Robert, you know anything about this in Trinity? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:37, David C. Rankin
On 04/06/2011 08:55 AM, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:43 PM, David C. Rankin
wrote: Bummer :(
How will I know if my laptop battery is about to run out?
Can you do:
cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT#/*
? Replace # with 0 or 1.
That's how I keep an eye on my battery on my old Thinkpad because it reports incorrectly, so it tries to shutdown with 50% power so I have to kill powersaved to keep using it.
I open a small terminal and use watch with the above command.
Thanks Larry,
That will work in the interim until we get a fix in Trinity. Robert, you know anything about this in Trinity?
Yes, hence the move to upower upcoming as soon as cmake is done. -- later, Robert Xu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org
On 04/06/2011 12:36 PM, Robert Xu wrote:
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:37, David C. Rankin
wrote: On 04/06/2011 08:55 AM, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:43 PM, David C. Rankin
wrote: Bummer :(
How will I know if my laptop battery is about to run out?
Can you do:
cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT#/*
? Replace # with 0 or 1.
That's how I keep an eye on my battery on my old Thinkpad because it reports incorrectly, so it tries to shutdown with 50% power so I have to kill powersaved to keep using it.
I open a small terminal and use watch with the above command.
Thanks Larry,
That will work in the interim until we get a fix in Trinity. Robert, you know anything about this in Trinity?
Yes, hence the move to upower upcoming as soon as cmake is done.
You da man... :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:43 PM, David C. Rankin
I am having a problem with kpowersave (battery monitor) on my laptop. It won't launch from the menu, but I can force it to start from the command line with: When it runs, it is greyed out and does not appear to be working correctly. Here is a screenshot of my kicker showing the greyed-out kpowersave: I'm not even sure what to check to try and troubleshoot. I'll try logging in as root and seeing what happens and report back. Do you have any other ideas of what I should look for to try and figure this one out? Thanks.
KDE3 uses DCOP & HAL IIRC. The Linux kernel is moving away from HAL and using D-BUS and other stuff. If that's the case, then KPowersave probably can't get the info it needs. Do you see powersaved running in top? (just a thought) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org
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David C. Rankin
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Larry Stotler
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Robert Xu
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Will Stephenson