Xfce Power Manager

[f***@gmx.co.uk]

We have a new version of the power manager available at one of the team
dev ppa's [1]

We're particularly interested in people with laptops trying it out,
people charging phones and other peripherals - even more so people
who've had issues with xfpm.

If you've not got that ppa installed

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfce4-power-manager

There are newer packages of mousepad, parole, xfce4-settings and
xubuntu-default-settings, if you want to try all of those out then
rather than apt-get install xfce4-power-manager use

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

That will upgrade all of those packages for you, if you want further
information on the dev ppa's we use for testing, check out the
contributor docs [2]

Try it out, if you want to revert to default packages run

sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/ppa

regards

[1]
https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/ubuntu/ppa?field.series_filter=xenial
[2] http://docs.xubuntu.org/contributors/qa-testing.html#qa-testing-ppa

[f***@gmx.co.uk]

Post by f***@gmx.co.uk
We have a new version of the power manager available at one of the
team dev ppa's [1]
We're particularly interested in people with laptops trying it out,
people charging phones and other peripherals - even more so people
who've had issues with xfpm.
If you've not got that ppa installed
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfce4-power-manager
There are newer packages of mousepad, parole, xfce4-settings and
xubuntu-default-settings, if you want to try all of those out then
rather than apt-get install xfce4-power-manager use
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
That will upgrade all of those packages for you, if you want further
information on the dev ppa's we use for testing, check out the
contributor docs [2]
Try it out, if you want to revert to default packages run
sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/ppa
regards
[1]
https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/ubuntu/ppa?field.series_filter=xenial
[2] http://docs.xubuntu.org/contributors/qa-testing.html#qa-testing-ppa

Further to this.

Developer has confirmed that this is about regression testing after
porting the power manager to new technologies

[08:37:40] <ochosi> so basically this is a release that is a port to new
technologies (gtk3, upower 0.99, gdbus)
[08:37:49] <ochosi> many things could potentially go wrong there
[08:38:01] <ochosi> not really too many new features, we tried to keep
it a 1:1 port

regards