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KPowersave is the KDE frontend for powermanagement. It provides battery monitoring, suspend/ standby triggers and many more powermanagement features for KDE (and GNOME).
Current feature list:
- support ACPI, APM (and PMU since 0.7.x)
- trigger suspend to disk/ram and standby
- switch cpu frequency policy (between: performance, dynamic and powersave)
- applet icon/tooltip with info about AC state, and battery fill/(warning) states, remainig time
- scheme specific settings (see below)
- autosuspend (to suspend if a user was a defined time inactive)
- autodimm
- a global and scheme specific configurable blacklist with programmes to prevent autosuspend/autodimm (e.g. videoplayer and cd burning tools)
- trigger lock screen on lidclose ans suspend and select the lock methode
- define battery warning levels and related actions if a level reached
- actions for special button events (power/lid/suspend/sleep buttons)
- define AC/Battery default scheme
- KNotify support for many events
- online help and localisations
- KPowersave support schemes with following configurable specific settings for:
* screensaver/DPMS
* brightness (if supported by hardware)
* autosuspend/autodimm
* scheme specific blacklist for autosuspend/autodimm
* CPU Frequency Policy
- KPowersave contains a detailed dialog (on left mouse button on the applet icon) with all PM relavant info
To run KPowersave you need currently:
- dbus/dbus-qt3 (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus)
- HAL >= 0.5.9 (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal)
Additionaly you can use the powersave daemon to handle powermanagement if no user is logged in to the system (http://sourceforge.net/projects/powersave/).
For (additional) dependencies see the project homepage and documentation.
If you run KPowersave on KDE you can remove klaptop from your system. KPowersave was developed as a replacement.
KPowersave and powersave are (as we know) running on this distributions:
* SUSE Linux (defaultly, available RPMs are for 10.0, for 10.1/10.2/10.3 see related repositories (www.opensuse.org), for 9.2/9.3 see older version on sf.net available)
* ALTLinux: default
* K/Ubuntu: from universe repository
* Debian: available via 'apt-get install kpowersave'
* Fedora Core 6/7/8 (sf.net)
* Mandriva 2007/2008(sf.net)
* Gentoo (ebuilds see download link)
* Arch Linux
* Slackware (http://www.mytux.org/content/viewslackpackage.php)
* (Simply)Mephis (since 6.0 default)
* FOX Linux (default)
* RR/RR64 Linux (default)
* PLD Linux (devel tree)
* Aurox (devel tree)
* Pardus
Packages and porting information for other distributions would be appreciated.
To get always actual news about updates and new versions subscribe to new releases at the project homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kpowersave
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Copyright (C) by:
* Danny Kukawka (2004-2007)
* Thomas Renninger (2004)
13 years ago
For more information about current development see:
http://dkukawka.blogspot.com/.
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For current changelog and news see:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=542867&group_id=124576
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29. Oct. 2007
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KPowersave 0.7.3:
Major changes since the last version/release:
- added new dialog to show logfiles if a suspend/resume fail and allow the user to save the log (need to get enabled per distro)
- added support to handle brightness key events if the machine not already handle this in the hardware directly
- added new feature named autodimm to reduce the brightness of the display if the user is inactive and dimm up if the user get active again
- new dialog shown up 30 seconds before
autosuspend call the suspend to warn the user and allow chancel the suspend
- added code to work with new PolicyKit/ConsoleKit/HAL combi to check if the user is privileged (for HAL >= 0.5.10 and related PolicyKit versions)
- added code to check if the current desktop session is avtive and handle if the session get inactive (via ConsoleKit)
- added code to release/aquire org.freedesktop.Policy.Power if the session get inactive/active to allow powersaved or other active KPowersave instances to handle powermanagement
- prepared KPowersave to work also with HAL >= 0.5.10 (handle renamed policy names in HAL)
- use now kdebug functions instead of own macros, added --dbg-trace option to allow trace function entry and leave points.
Minor changes:
- added wodim to autosuspend blacklist
- changed logic for resume if a timeout happen
- change default timeout to fake keyevent for locked screen to 2.5 sec
- don't fake key event after locked screen and lidopen if config variable timeToFakeKeyAfterLock = 0
- added new config variable (callSetPowerSaveOnAC in [General] section) to disable call SetPowerSave() on HAL.
- fix code to guess if a 6-hour-timeout occours while suspend/resume or if there was really a error
- removed Portuguese version of the help, since only one paragraph was translated
- fixed configure script to detect if we should use HAL to get information about policies instead of PolicyKit
- force update detailed dialog on AC events to get always e.g. the correct scheme info in the dialog
- reworked code for mouse wheel events to reuse code for brightness keys
- several HAL/D-Bus/PolicyKit/ConsoleKit related fixes/updates
- cleanup code, fixed compiler warnings, added new functions to removed doubled code
This release contains many bugfixes and translation updates. For more follow the Changelog.
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[18. Feb 2007, 0.7.2][21 Nov 06, 0.7.1][02 July 06, 0.6.2]
[14 May 06, 0.6.1][11 Apr 06, 0.6.0]
13 years ago
For more information about current development see:
http://dkukawka.blogspot.com/.
-----------------------------------
For current changelog and news see:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=542867&group_id=124576
---------------------------------------
29. Oct. 2007
---------------------------------------
KPowersave 0.7.3:
Major changes since the last version/release:
- added new dialog to show logfiles if a suspend/resume fail and allow the user to save the log (need to get enabled per distro)
- added support to handle brightness key events if the machine not already handle this in the hardware directly
- added new feature named autodimm to reduce the brightness of the display if the user is inactive and dimm up if the user get active again
- new dialog shown up 30 seconds before
autosuspend call the suspend to warn the user and allow chancel the suspend
- added code to work with new PolicyKit/ConsoleKit/HAL combi to check if the user is privileged (for HAL >= 0.5.10 and related PolicyKit versions)
- added code to check if the current desktop session is avtive and handle if the session get inactive (via ConsoleKit)
- added code to release/aquire org.freedesktop.Policy.Power if the session get inactive/active to allow powersaved or other active KPowersave instances to handle powermanagement
- prepared KPowersave to work also with HAL >= 0.5.10 (handle renamed policy names in HAL)
- use now kdebug functions instead of own macros, added --dbg-trace option to allow trace function entry and leave points.
Minor changes:
- added wodim to autosuspend blacklist
- changed logic for resume if a timeout happen
- change default timeout to fake keyevent for locked screen to 2.5 sec
- don't fake key event after locked screen and lidopen if config variable timeToFakeKeyAfterLock = 0
- added new config variable (callSetPowerSaveOnAC in [General] section) to disable call SetPowerSave() on HAL.
- fix code to guess if a 6-hour-timeout occours while suspend/resume or if there was really a error
- removed Portuguese version of the help, since only one paragraph was translated
- fixed configure script to detect if we should use HAL to get information about policies instead of PolicyKit
- force update detailed dialog on AC events to get always e.g. the correct scheme info in the dialog
- reworked code for mouse wheel events to reuse code for brightness keys
- several HAL/D-Bus/PolicyKit/ConsoleKit related fixes/updates
- cleanup code, fixed compiler warnings, added new functions to removed doubled code
This release contains many bugfixes and translation updates. For more follow the Changelog.
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[18. Feb 2007, 0.7.2][21 Nov 06, 0.7.1][02 July 06, 0.6.2]
[14 May 06, 0.6.1][11 Apr 06, 0.6.0]
dkukawka
15 years ago
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shades
15 years ago
emerged last hal, last dbus but... i can't compile this thing...
need a little help here! what's the stress?
using gentoo-2.6.15-r1(gentoo-sources)
maia@kasper kpowersave-0.5.4 $ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/maia/downloads/kpowersave-0.5.4'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/maia/downloads/kpowersave-0.5.4/doc'
Making all in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/maia/downloads/kpowersave-0.5.4/doc'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/maia/downloads/kpowersave-0.5.4/doc'
Making all in en
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/maia/downloads/kpowersave-0.5.4/doc/en'
/usr/kde/3.5/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook
XPath error : Undefined variable
compilation error: file /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl/html/inline.xsl line 856 element a
Attribute template href: failed to compile $id
XPath error : Undefined variable
compilation error: file /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl/html/admon.xsl line 83 element img
Attribute template alt: failed to compile $alt
XPath error : Undefined variable
compilation error: file /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl/html/docbook.xsl line 140 element meta
Attribute template content: failed to compile $VERSION
XPath error : Undefined variable
compilation error: file /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/kde-navig.xsl line 43 element div
Attribute template style: failed to compile $kde.common
XPath error : Undefined variable
compilation error: file /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/kde-navig.xsl line 195 element div
Attribute template style: failed to compile $kde.common
unable to parse ./index.docbook
make[3]: *** [index.cache.bz2] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/maia/downloads/kpowersave-0.5.4/doc/en'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/maia/downloads/kpowersave-0.5.4/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/maia/downloads/kpowersave-0.5.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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shades
15 years ago
for people having the same problem:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge libxslt
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dkukawka
15 years ago
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shades
15 years ago
sorry :P
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dkukawka
15 years ago
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Esaltato
15 years ago
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dkukawka
15 years ago
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miguipda
15 years ago
Thanks a lot for this if you do it.
Have a nice day.
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dkukawka
15 years ago
On Debian you can get KPowersave/powersave with 'apt-get install kpowersave' and for Ubuntu you can download packages from http://www.teco.edu/~biebl/ubuntu
I think the packages will be updated as soon as possible by the debian/ubuntu package maintianer/packager (Michael Biebl).
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jojob
15 years ago
Thank you.
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blaster999
15 years ago
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dkukawka
15 years ago
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blaster999
15 years ago
I tried to debug, but GDB told "Program exited with code 01.", so it didn't crash.
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hulder
15 years ago
BTW: What is the powersave version and distribution you are working with?
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blaster999
15 years ago
I'm using Gentoo, compiled powersave-0.11.5 by hand.
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dkukawka
15 years ago
We could discuss this there in a better/easier way than here and would try to help you. Thanks.
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blaster999
15 years ago
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dkukawka
15 years ago
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15 years ago
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gladiac
15 years ago
I'm still waiting for global shortcuts support. It isn't easy to control kpowersave with a touchpad in a car ;)
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blaster999
15 years ago
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sanderant
15 years ago
Do I have to be running a special kernel or anything?
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dkukawka
15 years ago
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goldenboy
15 years ago
this is a great app especially since I'm right now struggling with KLaptop, which always shutsdown my laptop even though i'm not running that low on battery.
Do you plan to make it a replacement for the standard Kcontrol module for energy management? This would be really really great. Or don't you plan to make it Kcontrol module at all?
cheers
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