Fedora 18 laptop regression

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Wed Jan 9 19:17:42 UTC 2013


On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:56:53 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at gmail.com> wrote:

> How many DE actually to this? GNOME does, not sure about KDE, Sugar or
> Mate, but inhibit support seems to be the exception and not the rule
> Xfce and LXDE do not yet support it, so power management on these DEs
> is broken by default.
> 
> A change that affects all desktops really should have been handled as
> a feature with approval from FESCo.  Did you ever contact the relevant
> package maintainers?  Did you at least bother to properly announce
> your changes?  What do you suggest maintainers and users of other
> desktops should do now?

I knew about this, but kinda dropping the ball on adding a workaround. 

I did file upstream with xfce4-session and xfce4-power-manager to get
this support added, but it's not landed in time. 

kevin

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