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FS#42127 - [xfce4-power-manager] optional dependencies

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Silvio Knizek (killermoehre) - Friday, 26 September 2014, 10:39 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Monday, 01 December 2014, 21:25 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Hi,

I maintain the aur/xfce4-power-manager-devel package.
I want to ask why in the package in [testing] the lxpanel and network-manager support is disabled? Both are opt-depends.

So I suggest to enable both to give as most support as possible.

Regards
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Monday, 01 December 2014, 21:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  LXDE panel plugin enabled in xfce4-power-manager 1.4.2-1.
Comment by Silvio Knizek (killermoehre) - Saturday, 25 October 2014, 09:00 GMT
*bump*
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Monday, 01 December 2014, 21:22 GMT
NetworkManager support is disabled because it won't work out of the box due to insufficient permissions:

> dbus[234]: [system] Rejected send message, 4 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.9" (uid=1000 pid=378 comm="xfce4-power-manager ")
> interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" member="Sleep" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"
> (uid=0 pid=232 comm="/usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon ")

It's also not needed because NetworkManager itself is listening for the sleep signal from UPower. You should see the following in the journal:

> NetworkManager[233]: <info> sleep requested (sleeping: no enabled: yes)
> NetworkManager[233]: <info> sleeping...

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