Bug 1660

Summary:	"battery discharging" popup window doesn't go away when power reconnected.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Tony Blackwell <tablackwell>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Low	CC:	balcaen.john, marja11
Version:	1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	gnome-power-manager	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	screen shot of battery messages

Description Tony Blackwell 2011-06-07 08:15:57 CEST

When unplugging a running laptop, a popup message tells me the battery is discharging.  I'd expect this to go away when I plug in the power again.  It doesn't, and if I've moved the laptop a couple of times between powerpoints before using it, there will be a popup still there for each move.

I don't recall seeing this pre-fork - my memory is that such windows closed themselves.

I know this is trivial, but for appearance would be worth fixing to make the
screen tidier.

To demonstrate, disconnect a running laptop from mains power.

Tony Blackwell 2011-06-08 05:35:55 CEST

Priority: Normal => Low

Comment 1 John Balcaen 2011-06-08 12:44:54 CEST

Which environnement are you using ? KDE, GNOME, LXDE, XFCE ?
I can't reproduce here on a i586 KDE laptop & netbook.

CC: (none) => balcaen.john

Comment 2 Tony Blackwell 2011-06-09 02:38:15 CEST

Acer Extenza 5620Z laptop, gdm. gnome.  I log in graphical screen initially as root, use that account to mount an encrypted user partition containing the user home directory, start up a 2nd graphical session with gdmflexiserver from the root account, then log in as the user (session is on Ctrl_Alt_F8 )  See the problem as the user on this 2nd session.

The initial comment is still valid, that with identical scenario I don't recall seeing this behaviour pre-fork.

Thanks for your prompt interest
Tony

Comment 3 Tony Blackwell 2011-06-09 04:01:09 CEST

Created attachment 540 [details]
screen shot of battery messages

Further info: When I disconnect the power from the running laptop, gnome puts up a message in top right screen corner, white text on black background, not a usual gnome window, (something more low-level?) re battery discharging. This vanishes as soon as I plug the power back in.

Most but not all of the time, it also produces a popup window either in the running session (e.g. Ctrl_Alt_F8), or the other inactive screen behind F7, or both or neither.  These popup windows have the format of usual gnome windows and contain the identical text to the transient white-on-black window mentioned above, but they don't go away on reconnecting power.

I've attached a screen shot after a few unplug/replug cycles.

Manuel Hiebel 2011-07-27 18:42:25 CEST

Source RPM: (none) => gnome-power-manager

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-04 19:23:35 CEST

I have never see that, but I assign to the maintainer.

Assignee: bugsquad => jani.valimaa

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2012-01-08 18:25:11 CET

pinging. because nothing happened to this report since more than 3 months ago, and it still has the status NEW or REOPENED

@ Jani
Please set status to ASSIGNED if you think this bug was assigned correctly. If for work flow reasons you can't do that, then please put OK on the whiteboard instead.

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2012-04-21 20:39:59 CEST

3 monthly ping

Comment 7 Tony Blackwell 2012-04-21 21:44:54 CEST

I haven't looked at the status of this on gnome3.  Probably best to close it.  I'll look when I get a chance and re-open if still a current issue.

Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2012-04-21 22:01:01 CEST

(In reply to comment #7)
> I haven't looked at the status of this on gnome3.  Probably best to close it. 
> I'll look when I get a chance and re-open if still a current issue.

Thanks Tony.

Closing as OLD for now, then

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD