[karmic] gnome-power-manager does not give "no-action" options for power events

[pablomme]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Until Jaunty, gnome-power-manager used to allow the user to choose "Do nothing" for power events "When laptop lid is closed" and "When battery power is critically low". However that is not available in Karmic (although one can still resort to gconf-editor to do the same).

This is an issue in my case because my laptop has the annoying habit of reporting an empty battery every so many reads (which I think is a hardware issue), especially when it heats up, and my workaround is to set it to do nothing when that happens, and monitor the battery level myself.

There are software bugs (e.g., bug #410604) which cause wrong battery charge estimation, for which the above options would also be useful.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 3ab3b6f4f525ee2d18489d3e226219ca
CheckboxSystem: 0531969bcfd4f03af7405c98dc94a948
Date: Tue Oct 6 18:58:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.39-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1948): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2065): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2043): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:2042): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window
 (gnome-power-manager:2052): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed

[Gareth Jones (garethj)]

Interestingly, editing the keys using gconf-editor (e.g. setting '/apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/lid_ac' to 'nothing') adds the 'Do nothing' option to the drop-down list in Power Management Preferences.

[Benedikt Kristinsson (benedikt-k)]

I can confirm this. Also using amd64 and karmic. Recieved an update for gnome-power-manager as late as today, no change.

[Steph (mysjackson)]

this is bad because when i unplug the laptop it say battery discharging but also goes to take the action of lid closed

[Steph (mysjackson)]

and my plug is loose so it happens every second but i still have recharge the laptop