guidance-power-manager fails when not running under kde

[Klaus S. Madsen]

Binary package hint: kde-guidance-powermanager

When running guidance-power-manager outside of KDE, the hibernate and suspend buttons does not work, if Lock Screen on Resume is enabled.

The following is output to the console, when clicked:

  File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance-powermanager/guidance-power-manager.py", line 487, in suspend
    self.lockScreen()
  File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance-powermanager/guidance-power-manager.py", line 482, in lockScreen
    ok, foo = kdesktop.KScreensaverIface.lock()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dcopext.py", line 535, in __getattr__
    return DCOPMeth(self, item)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dcopext.py", line 578, in __init__
    self.methods = [str(meth) for meth in dcopObj.objmethods]
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/apport_python_hook.py", line 42, in apport_excepthook
    binary = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.getcwdu(), sys.argv[0]))
IndexError: list index out of range

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance-powermanager/guidance-power-manager.py", line 487, in suspend
    self.lockScreen()
  File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance-powermanager/guidance-power-manager.py", line 482, in lockScreen
    ok, foo = kdesktop.KScreensaverIface.lock()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dcopext.py", line 535, in __getattr__
    return DCOPMeth(self, item)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dcopext.py", line 578, in __init__
    self.methods = [str(meth) for meth in dcopObj.objmethods]
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

I'm running Gutsy with kde-guidance-powermanager version 0.8.0svn20070727-0ubuntu6

[Luka Renko (lure)]

In what DE are you running powermanager?
Guidance was designed for KDE desktop, therefore it will not work properly in non-KDE environment. We should however handle such situations gracefully

[Klaus S. Madsen (ubuntu-hjernemadsen)]

I'm running this under Fluxbox, with xscreensaver as the screensaver. So no dcop accessible screensaver.

But apart from the screensaver problem, the the program seems to work perfectly (and is much nicer than klaptop_check).

[Luka Renko (lure)]

Marking as wishlist: guidance could make lock feature optional or call xscreensaver if dcop is not available.

[Sebastian Kügler (sebasje)]

I've just committed a fix that makes powermanager work even if the KDE screensaver could not be reached.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This uses DBus now for the screensaver, so it should be pretty desktop-agnostic.