xfce4-power-manager

[mmutoo]

Hi all,
I posted this Q during another conversation in the forum before but I think it has been lost between the answers to the main question. I am trying to install xfce4-power-manager on PCLOS LXDE. While installing it wants to fetch 380MB of data which is almost all the libraries included in the XFCE desktop. Of course I am sure that xfce4-power-manager does not need all those dependencies since I have used it before on Lubuntu, Zorin OS Lite, Bodhi Linux and many more. Is there any way I can avoid those dependencies?

thanks.

[Neal ManBear]

That's the problem with posting multiple questions per thread. One question --> one thread is the preferred way.     
XFCE4-power-manager can not be installed without its dependencies. If it could be, it would be non-working or at the least, severely crippled.     

[Ɗα√ϵς§]

gnome-power-manager works well on LXDE with few dependencies. Why complicate things?

[mmutoo]

Neal is right. I will post one question per thread

@Ɗα√ϵς§: the question I talked about it in the first post in this thread (that this question lost in its answers!) was about gnome-power-manager. I installed it, but it does not work!

[ghostbunny]

hi mmutoo,

gnome-power-manager does not start by default with the system. there are two way launch it via the menu entry launch or add it via lxautostart to the autostart.

regards
ghostbunny

[Neal ManBear]

ghostbunny has the right of it, mmutoo. Run lxautostart and add gnome-power-manager to your autostart with it.     

[mmutoo]

Hi guys,
I know that I made it autostart and it is running. But it still does nothing.

[ghostbunny]

what means nothing? or What do you think what should happen?

[mmutoo]

It must do what it is supposed to do! right? It must turn off the monitor after a specified period of idle time, it must send the system to suspend status after a specified period of idle time. It does none.