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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 4.18.4 released (2024/06/09 17:43)xfce4-power-manager 4.18.4 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/4.18/xfce4-power-manager-4.18.4.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/4.18/xfce4-power-manager-4.18.4.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/4.18/xfce4-power-manager-4.18.4.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 4.18.4 ======================== - Update copyright year - power: Fix overall charge state calculation - systray-icon: Handle scroll events - Only show desktop files in Xfce - main: Add missing newline in version info - Remove outdated references to xfce-goodies - pm-helper: Add missing GError initialization - settings: Fix debug log - settings: Fix inconsistent ref values between ui and gobject - Fix initial state of "Handle brightness keys" switch in settings UI - Ungrab brightness keys when not handling them - Revert "Fix system-sleep-inactivity min value" - Fix system-sleep-inactivity min value - 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, 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, Vietnamese