tdepowersave can only change power scheme if main window is open

tlmiller76 · 2017-11-18 21:20

So, I've been setting up tdepowersave to try to get the most battery life out of this Lenovo that I can. I have it set up pretty well, but one of the things I did is I configured the "acoustic" scheme for when I'm listening to music. I don't need the LCD, but I can't have it go to sleep/hibernate. So I have it set to 10% brightness, blank the LCD after 2 minutes, but no low power states.

I tried to use it last night, and found that if I go through the system tray menu, I can choose acoustic, but nothing happens. I right click and look at scheme, and it shows acoustic IS the current scheme, but lcd brightness still at 50% (powersave). So to test, I try to set it to performance (100%). Still 50%. So I open the main tdepowersave window, and boom, it's running in performance. Set acoustic, and it properly applies the acoustic scheme. Close the main window, and it instantly switches to the powersave scheme.

Obviously not a HUGE issue (I can start the main window and throw it on another desktop so I don't have to see it), but thought it was odd.

crosscourt · 2017-11-18 22:08

Never Noticed that to be honest but just tried it and confirmed what youre describing.

q4osteam · 2017-11-19 17:49

Looks like a Trinity bug, we will investigate it and possibly report at the appropriate site.

crosscourt · 2017-11-19 17:55

Thanks!

q4osteam · 2017-11-21 12:09

@tlmiller76

We are trying to reproduce the issue, but no success so far. What we have proceeded:
- Q4OS Scorpion fresh installation + full profile
- Configure tdepowersave Acoustic scheme:
Brightness: 10%
Autodimm: 'Enable autodimm the display', after 2 min, dimm to 0%
- Reboot
- Right click on tdepowersave icon in systray and switch to the Acoustic scheme
- Display properly dims to 10% and blanks after 2 minutes
- Switching schemes using systray powersave icon works fine

Please proofread the steps above and let us know, if there could be some variation to reproduce the issue. It would be also helpful to attach your '$HOME/.trinity/share/config/tdepowersaverc' file here.

crosscourt · 2017-11-21 20:46

Just tried to reproduce it again and could not do it,, following the devs instructions.

tlmiller76 · 2017-11-22 03:53

Wonder if it's just because I hadn't rebooted after editing the scheme? I'll have to try again since it's been rebooted several times since then. I haven't tried to use it since posting.

crosscourt · 2017-11-22 04:02

First time I tried it and reported the same issue, I hadnt rebooted either.

tlmiller76 · 2017-11-22 04:26

Yup, it works since rebooting.

crosscourt · 2017-11-22 04:30

Glad its working!

tlmiller76 · 2017-11-22 04:45

Yeah, being linux, it would NEVER have occurred to me that it needed a reboot to work!!

crosscourt · 2017-11-22 04:58

I tend to reboot as Im a long term Windows user but lately I havent been doing it.

tlmiller76 · 2017-11-22 05:12

Yeah, I've been running Linux as my primary os for...15+ years now. Windows is something that's just around for games, then back to linux.

crosscourt · 2017-11-22 05:23

I ran DOS for a long time and even some of the earlier OS. Ive run every version of Windows and presently have DOS, Win95/98SE/XP/Vista/Win7 installs most ly for gaming, my wifes pc and for testing to help clients. Started with computers in the 80s, Commodore 64 and Apple II favorites but didnt get into it till 1993 when Windows started to become popular. I didnt get heavily into Linux till around 2006-7.

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tlmiller76 · 2017-11-22 05:29

I never RAN Windows 2.0 or 3.0/1, but ran 1.0 and everything after (including ME unfortunately). Never was happy with it from the beginning. Started on Linux in 1996/7 timeframe, and by 2002 it was my primary OS.

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crosscourt · 2017-11-22 05:35

Windows 3.1 at the time was ground breaking yet most of us still preferred DOS. My favorite Windows was 2000 even though from a gaming standpoint it was terrible. By SP4 it was such a solid OS and honestly didnt care about XP when it came out. Linux still isnt my primary OS as I run many but for now Windows is still there but thats going to change fairly soon. Ive got older hardware with DOS, Apple systems, Windows systems and Linux systems, I rarely get bored.

tlmiller76 · 2017-11-22 05:40

I've never owned an Apple system (the macbook air I had for a while belonged to work, wasn't mine) of any form. When I was young they were WAY out of my price range, and nowadays I just plain wouldn't want one. In the days of the PowerPC chips, I DID want a mac. If not for Debian stopping ppc support, I'd probably pick up an old ppc mac and use it today. I loved those chips.

I've got nothing with <Windows 10 (both Windows installs) on it for Windows, no dos anymore. My oldest system is 7 years old, but it's my desktop, and been upgraded constantly up till 2 years ago, so it's still 8 core, 32 GB ram, 960 GB SSD and a 2 GB graphics card. At this point I'm just waiting to be able to afford to replace it however.

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crosscourt · 2017-11-22 05:47

Oldest system Ive got right now is 22years old actually Ive got two of them I use for older Windows games and DOS. Would love to have a C64 or Apple II again to play with but recently did some purging. I moved up to my Optiplex systems which are 4 years old but most of the gaming I do is independent and retro these days. Ive been working in the indie gaming community for quite awhile and always loved retrogaming. I also own some retro gaming consoles. Games and equipment have gotten too expensive so some of my friends and I pool cash so we can build some systems for testing and use.

I had a huge amount of older retro hardware but a fire in 2006 destroyed most of it.

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