Missing Image Icon in XFCE Panel for Power Manager?

Lehthanis · 2013-11-18 13:43:05

Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/pEjie0f.png

The red X in my notifications area of the panel has been bothering me for a while. I'm using a colorized iconset of Aw0ken by alecive (deviantart it) but I've traced the icon to a missing image icon. If I try and change iconsets, I get the equivalent missing image icon...so there's something that's being shown there, but there's no known icon for it I guess? Is there anywhere I can look to see what all of the notification icons are supposed to be? There are some times when I'm switching between battery and charging where the power manager icon will just not even be there. It's very erratic.

The screenshot was taken while on battery power There's a battery indicator and then a red X...I just don't know what it is. if I right click on it, I get the popup menu for power manager, same as if I right clicked on the battery icon. Right now, I'm not running on battery and fully charged and I have just the red X but no battery indicator...if I unplug, the battery shows up but the X stays.

Is there a log somewhere I can look at to see what's trying to be drawn there?

I'm running XFCE4 on Arch Linux. I posted this to their forums, but haven't gotten an answer. Thanks in advance!

ToZ · 2013-11-18 14:02:54

Do you have 2 batteries in your system? Or, is your system somehow seeing two batteries?

What is the make/model of your system?

What does the following return:

upower --dump

Right now, I'm not running on battery and fully charged and I have just the red X but no battery indicator...if I unplug, the battery shows up but the X stays.

Settings Manager -> Power Manager -> General -> System tray Icon: Set this value to "When battery is present" or "Always show icon" to have it always display. If you right-click on the X, select Preferences, can you change this setting to "Never show icon" and does the X disappear?

Lehthanis · 2013-11-18 16:07:56

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_ADP0
  native-path:          ADP0
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Mon 18 Nov 2013 08:41:40 AM EST (8357 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  line-power
    online:             yes

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path:          BAT0
  model:                PA5024U-1BRS
  serial:               27D2
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Mon 18 Nov 2013 11:00:46 AM EST (11 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               fully-charged
    energy:              46.441 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         46.441 Wh
    energy-full-design:  47.52 Wh
    energy-rate:         4.827 W
    voltage:             10.8 V
    percentage:          100%
    capacity:            97.7273%
    technology:          lithium-ion

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/mouse_0003o046DoC52Bx0004
  native-path:          /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/usb6/6-2/6-2:1.2/0003:046D:C52B.0003/0003:046D:C52B.0004
  vendor:               Logitech, Inc.
  model:                M325
  serial:               7C5C57C3
  power supply:         no
  updated:              Mon 18 Nov 2013 11:00:05 AM EST (52 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       no
  mouse
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               discharging
    percentage:          5%

Daemon:
  daemon-version:  0.9.23
  on-battery:      no
  on-low-battery:  no
  lid-is-closed:   no
  lid-is-present:  yes
  is-docked:       no

Could the X represent mouse power perhaps?

I set it just now to Always show and now I have both the battery icon (charging) and the red X visible (both plugged and unplugged).

I right-clicked on the X and set it to never show and both the X and the battery icon went away, so they're tied together...

But, there's good news! I unplugged the mouse's USB wireless connector and the X went away...so apparently it is the mouse power...so I guess I need to either find an icon for it or find a way to hide that device from the notifications area? It would be cool to know the power of the mouse!

ToZ · 2013-11-19 00:14:43

I believe that this bug report is relevant. From the bug report:

Recent upower version added batteries monitoring for wireless mouse.xfce4-power-manager isn't updated to handle this new feature. However, it enumerates these batteries as wellб since they appear to be exported by upower's dbus interface.
This is why that tray icon appears.

As to how to remove the icon, I wonder if there is some method/way in upower to mask or hide the mouse battery. I'll have a look.

Lehthanis · 2013-11-19 00:16:17

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8188

Arch won't fix this unless the patch is merged upstream...I temporarily fixed it by creating symlinks from gpm-mouse-000.png to xfpm-mouse--000.png and so on for 020, 040, etc.

Edit: Toz, you posted just as I was posting.

Last edited by Lehthanis (2013-11-19 00:17:29)

ToZ · 2013-11-19 00:16:34

This thread looks interesting.

EDIT: Looks like you've got it figured out.

Last edited by ToZ (2013-11-19 00:18:27)

Lehthanis · 2013-11-19 00:19:42

After making the symlinks as the "wrong" file names...I kinda like having the mouse power indicator.

Lehthanis · 2013-11-19 13:33:50

I'm going to mark this as unsolved in the hopes of getting this pushed upstream. Mods, correct me if that's wrong.

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Missing Image Icon in XFCE Panel for Power Manager?

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