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xfce4-power-manager - Power Manager
Introduction
Xfce4 Power Manager manages the power sources of the computer and connected devices (wireless mice, keyboards, media players etc.). It also allows users to control the display backlight brightness and set power-saving modes for displays and monitors.
In addition, xfce4-power-manager provides a set of freedesktop-compliant DBus interfaces to inform other applications about the current power level so that they can adjust their power consumption, and it provides the inhibit interface which allows applications to prevent automatic sleep actions via the power manager; as an example, the operating system’s package manager should make use of this interface while it is performing update operations.
General
- Getting Started – Starting the power manager and some command-line options.
- Preferences – Customizing the settings of the power manager.
- Frequently Asked Questions – Some random things you probably want to know.
- Power Manager Panel Plugin – Display your battery's load status, connected devices and control your display backlight brightness.
Required packages
Xfce Power Manager depends on the following packages:
- Gtk 3.14 or above.
- Glib 2.42 or above.
- DBus 1.1 or above.
- libxfce4ui 4.12.0 or above.
- libxfce4util 4.12.0 or above
- libnotify 0.4.1 or above.
- xfconf 4.12.0 or above.
- libxfce4panel 4.12.0 or above (optional, for the Xfce panel plugin).
- XRandR 1.2.0 or above.
- DPMS X11 extension (DPMS support, required).
- UPower 0.99.0 or above.
- Polkit 0.91 or above (optional but recommended).
- Consolekit (optional but recommended).
- LoginD/SystemD (optional).
- Pm-utils (for suspend & hibernate on Linux).
Latest Release
- xfce4-power-manager 4.19.3 released (2024/06/02 04:51)xfce4-power-manager 4.19.3 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/4.19/xfce4-power-manager-4.19.3.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/4.19/xfce4-power-manager-4.19.3.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/4.19/xfce4-power-manager-4.19.3.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfce4-power-manager? ============================ This software is a power manager for the Xfce desktop, Xfce power manager manages the power sources on the computer and the devices that can be controlled to reduce their power consumption (such as LCD brightness level, monitor sleep). In addition, xfce4-power-manager provides a set of freedesktop-compliant DBus interfaces to inform other applications about current power level so that they can adjust their power consumption, and it provides the inhibit interface which allows applications to prevent automatic sleep actions via the power manager; as an example, the operating system’s package manager should make use of this interface while it is performing update operations. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/start Release notes for 4.19.3 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] - Update copyright year - x11: idle: Fix -Wanalyzer-null-dereference - Revert "Add new CI builds to build without X11 and Wayland" - Apply .clang-format file - clang-format: Use IncludeBlocks::Regroup - settings: Rework starting xfpm if not already running - manager: Rework startup - manager: Use D-Bus proxy instead of SMClient to call SessionManager - settings: Warn about upower acting before xfpm on critical battery - power: Fix overall charge state calculation - critical-power: Avoid unintentional user action in critical dialog - critical-power: Use xfpm own methods to notify user - manager: Honor lid settings when the system transition to battery - power: Expose lid_is_closed property - power: save new battery state *before* emitting signal - settings: Add tooltip about actions on lid closed - manager: Turn off internal screen when locked on lid closed - manager: Be consistent when lid is closed in multi-monitor setup - Properly check for multi-monitor setup - settings: Switch to correct stack child when opening dialog - wayland: dpms: Ensure user activity always turns on outputs - settings: Add option to shutdown on lid closed - settings: Reduce inactivity times to reasonable values - backlight: Remove dead code - systray-icon: Handle scroll events - Only show desktop files in Xfce - main: Add missing newline in version info - settings: Drop light-locker integration - pm-helper: Add missing GError initialization - Remove outdated references to xfce-goodies - power: Rename is_in_presentation_mode to is_inhibited - manager: Let power handle inhibition - power: Inhibit non forced sleep requests in presentation mode too - manager: Add missing hybrid sleep case - settings: Change default sleep mode on battery to suspend - wayland: dpms: Add missing filter on alarm id - ppd: Add missing profile initialization - x11: dpms: Fix broken DPMSForceLevel - manager: Ensure proper conversion between enum types - clang-format: AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine - Add hybrid sleep support - settings: Properly hide critical power widgets if no battery - settings: Avoid duplicate code for adding button combos - settings: Fix debug log - build: Put standard headers back in where there's non-linux code - settings: Fix garbage value in string - settings: Fix inconsistent ref values between ui and gobject - settings: Group light-locker code and move shared code up - settings: Make last non-light-locker callback static - settings: Sync other widgets with xfconf - settings: Avoid more duplicate code between on_ac and on_battery - settings: Sync on-battery widgets with xfconf - settings: Sync on-ac widgets with xfconf - settings: Use generic callback for GtkComboBox::changed - settings: Move code so that splitting into functions makes sense - settings: Use defines for default values - settings: Be consistent in naming defines - settings: Disconnect upower signals when list view is destroyed - fix build on OpenBSD - fix build on OpenBSD after f7903092 - clang-format: Break after assignment operator - settings: Add a button to open xfce4-screensaver-preferences - settings: Make DPMS tooltip text generic - Apply .clang-format file - Clean up and sort includes - Bump required versions and remove dead code - Fix xfpm-main.c - Simplify some code - Preliminary cleanup - clang-format: Add file - settings: Sync first tab with xfconf - Fix xgettext warning about plural form - Add missing sanity checks - Handle keyboard backlight toggle keys. - Fix initial state of "Handle brightness keys" switch in settings UI - Ungrab brightness keys when not handling them - Add new CI builds to build without X11 and Wayland - Fix system-sleep-inactivity min value - Always add sm-client option group - Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Vietnamese