[xubuntu-users] Two power managers

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:15:18AM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:20:37PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > Chris McCormick wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there some way I could be running two versions of
> > > xfce4-power-manager? Maybe one of the other packages is running the
> > > notification bar thing? Hmmm, strange.
> > 
> > You could try right-clicking on each icon.  Do the menus look the same?
> > If they have an "About" command, what does "About" tell you?
> 
> In the original post I thought I wrote that I did that but maybe I wasn't clear. Anyway, the second icon brings up the xfce4 power manager menu and the "About" popup says it is xfce4-power-manager. The first (left hand) icon does nothing when I click on it with either button. When I hover over it it says "Laptop battery X minutes until charged (X%)" where X are real values.
> 
> Both battery symbols are in the Notification Area.
> 
> What do other people's output from `ps ax | grep power` look like? Mine looks like this:
> 
>  1582 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/lib/upower/upowerd
>  1790 ?        Ssl    0:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id
> 
I see:-
  1373 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/lib/upower/upowerd
  5411 ?        Ssl    0:01 xfce4-power-manager

... and I don't even have a power manager icon in the panel!  :-)


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Chris Green