Bug#589846: gnome-power-manager does not offer the option "do nothing" when closing a laptop lid
Mathieu Desnoyers
mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com
Wed Apr 13 04:09:27 UTC 2011
* Pablo De Napoli (pdenapo at gmail.com) wrote:
> Package: gnome-power-manager
> Version: 2.30.1-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> The gnome power manager does not offer the option "do nothing" when closing
> a laptop lid.
>
> This option could be useful when one plugs a external monitor.
>
> The problem is described here
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1306801
>
> in the Ubuntu forums, and seems that this option was indedd available in
> previous versions of this software.
>
> Thought this option can still be enabled by using the gconf-editor
> (Navigating to apps-->gnome-power-manager-->buttons and setting lid_ac and/or
> lid_battery to "nothing" (without the quotes), as described in that web
> page), this is certainly not very user friendly.
>
> So please make gnome more usable by (re)nabling this option.
I just looked for this one for about 15 minutes before finding this bug
report (I was about to file the same one). I'm running Debian Squeeze
with gnome on my laptop, and I usually close my laptop lid to use my
external monitor (which I think is a very common use case!). Having no
option to even turn off the screen saver (which apply to the main screen
too) is a really stupid GUI design choice (actually, closing the laptop
lid should *not* even cause the screensaver to run when an external
monitor is plugged).
So am I sending this email hoping it will bring the maintainer's
attention on this issue and get this reported to upstream so they can be
brought back to sanity.
Some version info about my system. Notice that the gnome-power-manager
package is now at 2.32.0 and the problem is still not fixed.
ii gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-2
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.30.1-2
ii gnome-core 1:2.30+7
Thank you,
Mathieu
>
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> Distro version: squeeze/sid
> Kernel version: 2.6.34
> g-p-m version: 2.30.1
> HAL version: 0.5.14
> System manufacturer: missing
> System version: missing
> System product: missing
> AC adapter present: yes
> Battery present: yes
> Laptop panel present: no
> CPU scaling present: no
> Battery Information:
> battery.charge_level.current = 34332 (0x861c) (int)
> battery.charge_level.design = 44400 (0xad70) (int)
> battery.charge_level.last_full = 34332 (0x861c) (int)
> battery.charge_level.percentage = 100 (0x64) (int)
> battery.charge_level.rate = 0 (0x0) (int)
> battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool)
> battery.model = 'ZR3' (string)
> battery.present = true (bool)
> battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false (bool)
> battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = false (bool)
> battery.reporting.current = 3093 (0xc15) (int)
> battery.reporting.design = 4000 (0xfa0) (int)
> battery.reporting.last_full = 3093 (0xc15) (int)
> battery.reporting.rate = 0 (0x0) (int)
> battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion' (string)
> battery.reporting.unit = 'mAh' (string)
> battery.serial = '10762' (string)
> battery.technology = 'lithium-ion' (string)
> battery.type = 'primary' (string)
> battery.vendor = 'SANYO' (string)
> battery.voltage.current = 12518 (0x30e6) (int)
> battery.voltage.design = 11100 (0x2b5c) (int)
> battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string)
> DeviceKit data:
> Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_ACAD
> native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/ACAD
> power supply: yes
> updated: Wed Jul 21 12:30:30 2010 (954 seconds ago)
> has history: no
> has statistics: no
> line-power
> online: yes
>
> Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1
> native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT1
> vendor: SANYO
> model: ZR3
> serial: 10762
> power supply: yes
> updated: Wed Jul 21 12:30:37 2010 (947 seconds ago)
> has history: yes
> has statistics: yes
> battery
> present: yes
> rechargeable: yes
> state: fully-charged
> energy: 34.3323 Wh
> energy-empty: 0 Wh
> energy-full: 34.3323 Wh
> energy-full-design: 44.4 Wh
> energy-rate: 0 W
> voltage: 12.523 V
> percentage: 100%
> capacity: 77.325%
> technology: lithium-ion
>
> Daemon:
> daemon-version: 0.9.5
> can-suspend: yes
> can-hibernate yes
> on-battery: no
> on-low-battery: no
> lid-is-closed: yes
> lid-is-present: yes
> GNOME Power Manager Process Information:
> HAL Process Information:
> 104 1457 0.0 0.6 44836 5272 ? Ssl 12:28 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
> root 1458 0.0 0.1 22208 1356 ? S 12:28 0:00 \_ hald-runner
> root 1487 0.0 0.1 24352 1488 ? S 12:28 0:00 \_ hald-ad
> root 1507 0.0 0.1 24320 1372 ? S 12:28 0:00 \_ hald-ad
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.34
> Locale: LANG=es_AR, LC_CTYPE=es_AR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
> ii consolekit 0.4.1-4 framework for defining and trackin
> ii dbus-x11 1.2.24-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii gconf2 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
> ii libbonobo2-0 2.24.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
> ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii libcairo2 1.8.10-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
> ii libcanberra-gtk0 0.24-1 Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
> ii libcanberra0 0.24-1 a simple abstract interface for pl
> ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.86-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii libdevkit-power-gobject1 1:0.9.5-1 abstraction for power management -
> ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines
> ii libgnome-keyring0 2.30.1-1 GNOME keyring services library
> ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
> ii libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.5.0-2 sends desktop notifications to a n
> ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.30.2-1 library for GNOME Panel applets
> ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
> ii libunique-1.0-0 1.1.6-1 Library for writing single instanc
> ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
> ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
> ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-3 X11 RandR extension library
> ii notification-daemon 0.5.0-2 daemon to displays passive pop-up
> ii upower 0.9.5-1 abstraction for power management
>
> Versions of packages gnome-power-manager recommends:
> ii udisks 1.0.1+git20100614-1 abstraction for enumerating block
>
> Versions of packages gnome-power-manager suggests:
> ii hal 0.5.14-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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