[SOLVED] [Miyo] Power Manager is missing in my setup

Ron · 2018-05-13 18:36:40

I had forgotten about this little problem I have but was reminded of it through a different problem (which is now solved, I hope). I am posting it here as it is a separate problem (I think so, at least).

As the subject line states, I have no access to the power manager. It usually should be in the Mate Control center, but it's not. I have upower installed. I thought maybe if I installed mate-power-manager-common then the power manager link would show up in the control center, but it did not. Another thing is after installing this, an error message popped up which unfortunately I did not write down. But it is installed according to Synaptic, along with upower.

Is there a way to check which one is running? Or if any? Thanks.

Last edited by Ron (2018-05-14 16:33:01)

MiyoLinux · 2018-05-13 23:19:28

Ron, what happens if you open the terminal and enter...

mate-power-manager

I hope that's right since I'm unfamiliar with Mate still...

Ron · 2018-05-13 23:24:06

I get bash: mate-power-manager: command not found

If I put sudo in front I get: sudo: mate-power-manager: command not found

It doesn't help if I put in mate-power-manager-common either.

EDIT:
I also tried to reinstall it in hopes the same error message would pop up again, but it did not.

Last edited by Ron (2018-05-13 23:30:06)

golinux · 2018-05-14 00:05:11

That means it's not installed. I have mate-power-manager-common available in jessie. Should be the same in ASCII.

Ron · 2018-05-14 00:08:30

But according to Synaptic it is installed.

mlsmith · 2018-05-14 00:50:46

Looks like systemd is a dependency of mate-power-manager. Perhaps that's the issue?

Ron · 2018-05-14 01:06:19

I don't see that in Synaptic in the list of dependencies. But then, why wouldn't I see upower's Power Manager in Mate's control center? I know it would show Xfce's power manager if it were installed.

MiyoLinux · 2018-05-14 01:22:27

In looking at Debian's page, mate-power-manager is a separate package apart from mate-power-manager-common, and it appears to not be available in ASCII.

As mlsmith said, it also shows systemd as a dependency...or consolekit. This is just a guess, but perhaps the Devuan developers are still working on the actual mate-power-manager (?)...I don't know. Sorry Ron.

golinux · 2018-05-14 01:24:30

Here's the answer. mate-power-manager is banned in ASCII.

golinux · 2018-05-14 01:33:47

MiyoLinux wrote:

This is just a guess, but perhaps the Devuan developers are still working on the actual mate-power-manager

AntoFox maintains Mate for Devuan. He posted this last month.

Ron · 2018-05-14 12:08:45

So should I install Xfce's power manager? Or something else?

Another more disturbing question: if Mate's power manager has systemd as a dependency, will the whole Mate desktop one day have it as a dependency?

Last edited by Ron (2018-05-14 12:10:37)

MiyoLinux · 2018-05-14 12:57:56

Ron, the xfce4 power manager works on my "miyo mate". If you previously removed it, and if you don't want to install the xfce4-panel along with it...install it with this command...

sudo apt-get install xfce4-power-manager --no-install-recommends

I can't answer your second question. That's a question for AntoFox...the Mate maintainer for Devuan.

Ron · 2018-05-14 13:17:14

Thank you MiyoLinux, and everyone else.

Last edited by Ron (2018-05-14 16:34:07)

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