xfce4-power-manager-1.2.0

Introduction to Xfce4 Power Manager

The Xfce4 Power Manager 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, CPU frequency scaling). 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.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.

Package Information

Xfce4 Power Manager Dependencies

Required

libnotify-0.7.6, UPower-0.9.21 and xfce4-panel-4.10.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfce4-power-manager

Installation of Xfce4 Power Manager

Install Xfce4 Power Manager by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/xfce4-power-manager-1.2.0 \
     imagesdir=/usr/share/doc/xfce4-power-manager-1.2.0/images install

Contents

Installed Programs: xfce4-power-information, xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-power-manager-settings and xfpm-power-backlight-helper
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

xfce4-power-information

is a GTK+ 2 application that displays information about installed devices. It uses DBus to comunicate with UPower which is required at runtime for xfce4-power-information to give any meaningful output.

xfce4-power-manager

is the Xfce Power Manager.

xfce4-power-manager-settings

is a utility that comes with the Xfce Power Manager to access/change its configuration.

xfpm-power-backlight-helper

is a command line utility to get or set the brightness of your screen.

Last updated on 2013-08-20 13:51:02 -0700