Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-01-16

Chapter 33. GNOME Additional Packages

gnome-power-manager-2.30.1

Introduction to gnome-power-manager

The gnome-power-manager is a session daemon for the GNOME desktop environment that makes it easy to manage your laptop or desktop system.

This package is known to build using an LFS 6.5 platform but has not been tested.

Package Information

gnome-power-manager Dependencies

Required

GNOME Panel-2.30.2, libgnome-keyring-2.30.1, libnotify-0.4.5, libunique-1.1.6, and UPower-0.9.1

Recommended

HAL-0.5.14 (Listed as required in README, but can be disabled.)

Optional

xmlto-0.0.23

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-power-manager

Installation of gnome-power-manager

Install gnome-power-manager by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.30.2 \
            --libexecdir=$(pkg-config \
                --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/lib/gnome-power-manager &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-scrollkeeper: Use this parameter if you wish to disable the updates to the scrollkeeper database.

--disable-schemas-install: Use this parameter if you wish to disable the schemas installation.

--disable-hal: Use this parameter if you wish to disable HAL support.

--enable-tests: Use this parameter if you wish to build the self tests.

--disable-applets: Use this parameter if you wish to disable the extra power applets.

--enable-docbook-docs: Use this parameter if you wish to build the documentation.

--without-dpms-ext: Use this parameter if you wish to disable support for the DPMS extension.

Contents

Installed Programs: gnome-power-bugreport.sh, gnome-power-manager, gnome-power-preferences, gnome-power-statistics, gnome-brightness-applet, and gnome-inhibit-applet
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: $GNOME_PREFIX/{lib/gnome-power-manager, share/{gnome-power-manager/icons/hicolor/{16x16/{actions,status}, 22x22/{actions,status},24x24/{actions,status},32x32/{actions,status}, 48x48/{actions,status},scalable/{actions,status}}, gnome/help/gnome-power-manager/*,omf/gnome-power-manager}}

Short Descriptions

gnome-power-bugreport.sh

generates a bug report.

gnome-power-manager

is the manager daemon itself.

gnome-power-preferences

is the control panel program, for configuration.

gnome-power-statistics

is the statistics graphing program.

gnome-brightness-applet

allows the user to change the brightness temporarily without changing the default policy.

gnome-inhibit-applet

allows the user to prevent the computer auto-sleeping when inactive.

Last updated on 2010-08-22 13:35:17 +0000