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xeNULL

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Registered: 2011-01-23

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[solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

Hey guys, first of I will say corenominal great job I am loving Waldorf! and secondly I am having trouble with the usual battery icon in the systray not showing at all, I run xfce4-power-manager from my .xinitrc and am running WMFS2 though that shouldn't effect it. Anyone else having this issue?

Last edited by xeNULL (2012-05-09 14:19:23)

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machinebacon

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

Hey xenull!

Stupid question: is "Always show icon" chosen in xfce4-power-manager? If yes, have you tried changing the icon theme?

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xeNULL

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

I am a complete idiot, I just ran xfce4-power-manager-settings and clear as day it says never show the icon in systray although it was set to that by default. To mods that get here before people comment on my idiocy please delete topic lol

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machinebacon

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

haha just change the text to "The icon is always moving to the left after coming back from hibernation"

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Milozzy

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

haha just change the text to "The icon is always moving to the left after coming back from hibernation"

Agree!!! damned icon!
Unfortunately this bug is known and open upstream.

SabreWolfy

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Registered: 2009-03-09

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

On Statler, after hibernate, xfce4-power-manager segfaults, so there won't be an icon.

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Tuber

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Registered: 2012-02-03

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

On Statler, after hibernate, xfce4-power-manager segfaults, so there won't be an icon.

Seems to do that from sleep mode as well (sometimes). I often have to re-start it after waking my netbook.

Last edited by Tuber (2012-05-29 11:44:34)

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SabreWolfy

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

^ tint2 sometimes also requires a restart -- the icons are too far left from the clock, leaving some open space. Neither xfce4-power-manager nor tint2 show this behaviour every time though IIRC. I haven't paid enough attention to what the trigger might be.

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Tuber

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

Yea. Restarting tint2 fixes the moving icons.

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Tuber

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

...I haven't paid enough attention to what the trigger might be.

If you read the bug report, someone suggested it was a change of power state. In other words, on battery when it goes to sleep mode, and AC when it wakes (or vice-versa). That has been my observation as well.

It has been fixed in newer versions of xfce4-power-manager, but the new version in not available in stable backports or proposed (it's in the wheezy repos).

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SabreWolfy

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

^ I think I recall reading that. I've just resumed from hibernate, but I hibernated on power and I've just resumed on power, and xfce4-power-manager is still running. Maybe that's why I've seen different behaviour. Yeah, I read that it's fixed in the next version of xfce4-power-manager Once before my laptop shutdown "on it's own" when running on battery, because the battery ran flat and xfce4-power-manager wasn't running

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Tuber

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

I'm trying gnome-power-manager now.

So far so good...

No crash when waking, regardless of power.

Wakes faster than xfce4-power-manager.

No moving icons!!

If you want to try it too, don't forget to edit your autostart and menu (Power Management = gnome-power-preferences). You might want to check out gnome-power-statistics as well.

Time will tell if it affects battery life differently than xfce4 PM...

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SabreWolfy

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

^ Thanks, that's useful to know. This is in the Waldorf thread, but I experience the xfce4-power-manager problems in #! Statler, so I might consider gnome-power-manager instead.

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gompa

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Registered: 2012-05-04

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Re: [solved] xfce4-power-manager system tray icon

last time i checked the battery icon moves because of the tint2 battery monitor
in tint2 config change :

# Battery
battery = 1

to :

# Battery
battery = 0

edit: oh srry for the necro bumping

Last edited by gompa (2012-07-05 00:34:30)