Re: No more xfce power manager. Alternatives?

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Time for some thrilling heroics.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
>
> What are people using for power management & to keep an eye on battery
> status these days? (Is there some necessary, and completely obvious,
> package that I should be installing to make other battery monitors work?)

I'm not sure what others are using, but for monitoring, I only use
conky.  I can read with it battery, temperature and others.

For suspending and such, I have menu entries in fluxbox.  Withot
systemd my main entries were:

      ! [exec] (Suspend-Disk) {urxvt -pe -tabbed -e sudo local_s2disk.sh}
      ! [exec] (Suspend-Mem)  {urxvt -pe -tabbed -e sudo local_s2ram.sh}
      ! [exec] (Reboot)       {sudo shutdown -r now "Sutdown:
Rebooting now..."}
      ! [exec] (Shutdown)     {sudo shutdown -h now "Shutdown:
Shuting down now..."}

% cat /usr/bin/local_s2ram.sh
#!/bin/env sh

echo "Suspending to RAM NOW..."
sync
swapoff -a
swapon -a
echo 'mem' > /sys/power/state

% cat /sr/bin/local_s2disk.sh
#!/bin/env sh

echo "Suspending to Disk NOW..."
sync
swapoff -a
swapon -a
telinit run ntp stop
echo 'disk' > /sys/power/state
telinit run ntp start

Telinit is a init system from sourceMage GNU/Linux.  Now with systemd
on Arch and similar:

        [exec] (Disk) {systemctl hibernate}
        [exec] (Both) {systemctl hybrid-sleep}
        [exec] (Mem)  {systemctl suspend}

         [exec] (Reboot)   {systemctl reboot}
         [exec] (PowerOff) {systemctl poweroff}

Though honestly I don't see the hybrid very useful so far...

For power savings settings, well there are many ways without using
laptop-mode and such any more.  Most configs can be set with systemctl
directly and a init personal setting at boot plus udev...

Others might have other alternatives though, :-)

-- 
Javier.

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