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 +====== Xfce Power Manager devicekit-power and upower release ======
 +{{:blog:xfce_logo.png?84x84 }} Today  --- //2010/02/02 11:55// The first [[http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal|HAL]] free beta version of Xfce Power Manager is out, the new version uses [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceKit|DeviceKit Power]] to get information about power devices, and also it uses [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceKit|DeviceKit Disks]] to spin down the hard disks when running on battery power.
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 +Since [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceKit|DeviceKit Power]] does not have a brightness back-light support like what [[http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal|HAL]] had, the brightness support is handled via xrandr, an optional compile time flag was added to enable [[http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal|HAL]] brightness fallback in case xrandr failed to manage the back-light panel
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 +This release was supposed to go in public by the beginning of 2010, but a stupid decision of renaming [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceKit|DeviceKit Power]] to UPower and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceKit|DeviceKit Disks]] UDisks delayed the release a bit, since the bus name and services name have been changed, now with this version, Xfce Power Manager will automatically detects the correct D-Bus name to use.
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 +{{tag>xfce Xfce_Power_Manager D-Bus DeviceKit-Power DeviceKit-Disks Upower UDisks}}
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 +~~DISCUSSION~~
 
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