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Alphonse23

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Registered: 2009-06-16

Posts: 2

xfce4-power-manager trouble

I just upgraded to fedora 11, and I'm using xfce 4.6 with compiz fusion enabled. On startup xfce keeps opening a random number of multiple xfce4-power-managers. I tried removing it from the Application Autostart under Session and Startup, and also I tried deleting it under ~/.config/autostart/, but both didn't work. After deleting it from ~/.config/autostart/ it just reappears after a reboot. I also tried reinstalling (yum removing then yum install) but the problem persists.

$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:14:37 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Here's a picture of it when on startup xfce opened 9 xfce4-power-managers,
http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/s...anager_bug.png

here's a process list of that same session

[Alphonse@localhost ~]$ ps -F -U Alphonse | grep xfce4-power-manager
Alphonse  2123     1  0 10177 10276   1 21:43 ?        00:00:01 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 212e6268a-32ac-47cf-9798-2da439334d59
Alphonse  2124     1  0 10176 10276   1 21:43 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 2bf71c7df-c40d-4f64-b9bf-d8448650fe54
Alphonse  2125     1  0  9752  8188   1 21:43 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 2a306c7a0-549f-47e9-b90f-1deaa1806cd8
Alphonse  2126     1  0 10445 11500   1 21:43 ?        00:00:01 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 239575314-20be-41f1-b8a0-1da3bd5026d6
Alphonse  2129     1  0  9755  8208   0 21:43 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 24369d75f-e1c3-4e48-8951-5b75b3d07b71
Alphonse  2344     1  0 10143 10316   0 21:43 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager
Alphonse  2345     1  0 10177 10268   0 21:43 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 22e0fdfff-bbd5-4004-9721-88b5c418b51d
Alphonse  2486     1  0 10156 10308   0 21:44 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager
Alphonse  2487     1  0 10161 10288   1 21:44 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager
Alphonse  3036  3012  0  1050   684   1 22:11 pts/0    00:00:00 grep xfce4-power-manager

Thanks to anyone who can help me with this. If I can't figure this out I guess I have to find a new power manager.
-Alphonse

herd

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-05-18

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Re: xfce4-power-manager trouble

also do a rm -rf ./cache/xfce*.
Other threads with different solutions for different distributions exist in this board. Search.

hth,

herd

Alphonse23

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Registered: 2009-06-16

Posts: 2

Re: xfce4-power-manager trouble

I don't have a ~/cache/ file. I do have a ~/.cache/ file though. But rm -rf ~/.cache/xfce* doesn't work. Also, I did search for xfce4-power-manager on every board on this forum and it didn't turn up anything related to my problem.

I'm just going to switch to gnome-power-manager. It works just as well.

But I was wondering, should I post my problem on bugzilla? I'm pretty sure it's a bug in xfce4-power-manager.

-Alphonse

hackworth

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Registered: 2009-06-26

Posts: 1

Re: xfce4-power-manager trouble

Just thought I would add that I had the same issue with xfce4 in fedora 11. What I eventually figured out was the the power manager was being loaded by both autostart and as part of the saved user session. so i removed the xfce4-power-manager.desktop file from ~/.config (if it exists) and /etc/xdg/autostart and just let it start by the saved session, and that seems to have solved the issue.