Power manager: How do you stop it?

[marc]

Amichai Rotman said...
> On 4/16/07, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> >
> > The "new" gnome-power-manager in edgy - new in that it runs by default -
> > stops my laptop from being able to suspend. I've always used
> > klaptopdaemon, and this still works when I remove Power Manager
> > manually. However, whenever I kill gnome-power-manager, it reappears
> > when I login.
> >
> > Even more incomprehensibly, there is no access provided to the app's
> > prefs from the applet. This is all (arguably) well and good when running
> > gnome, when System/Prefs/Power Management is available, but when in KDE
> > there is no access to the prefs without running gnome-power-preferences.
> > And the prefs don't allow for the app to be neutered. Weird.
> >
> > Now, Linux is a mulituser system, so having KDE and gnome installed is
> > really quite okay, so it really should be much better behaved, imo.
> >
> > Nevertheless, I would like to stop the thing from running, but I can't
> > see what's running it. I've deleted the autostart entry in
> > /usr/share/gnome/autostart, but still it returns relentlessly. I would
> > remove the package (gnome-power-desktop), but that entails also removing
> > gnome-session and ubuntu-dektop, neither of which I want to do.
> >
> > Any ideas? It's like trying to kill some Windows' services :-o
>
> I am not running Ubuntu on a laptop, so I am not sure...
> 
> Have you checked the Sessions applet from the Preffs menu?
> 
> I bet ther's a way to diable it from there.
> 
> Good Luck! 

Thanks. No, that didn't work.

Since a reinstall now looks likely - this is a feature of Ubuntu 
upgrades in my experience, unfortunately - I'm thinking of using Debian 
rather than Ubuntu, since this same problem is going to reoccur and it's 
a showstopper.

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Cheers,
Marc