Bug appears in 1.4.4 & 1.6.0: laptop (lenovo thinkpad X230) w/ xubuntu 15.10, has recently started happening & I'm not sure what's caused the change. When plugged in the battery will charge to full, I’ll get the power manager notification "You battery is fully charged" then almost immediately "Your battery is charging", and it'll just repeat back & forth, one replacing the other roughly every second. At least 2 other people have had this bug but haven't filed it here: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1968997 Happy to help with log files or whatever just let me know what you need.
I was just in the process of opening a merge request since I ran into this problem on my T410 Thinkpad and fixed it. Here's a patch against 1.6.0 stable which corrected the issue for me. https://github.com/acidtonic/xfce4-power-manager/commit/d26e066d687e521836f56d7e2b9c6dc1d79c15a9 Notes: I implemented a 120 second "flap timer" that is reset each time one of the notifications specifically for battery full/charging/discharging occurs while the other types of notifications are shown as usual. There is one small caveat which is that the very first read of the flap_timer is an uninitialized read yet after that it's initialized to the systems current timer using the monotonic clock call from glib which I assumed was appropriate. Also the last charge state the system settles into once flapping stops may not be shown and it would be trivial to set an event callback timer each time a notification is suppressed to eventually show the "final state" if flapping stopped since the timer was set. TODO: Adding a gui to configure the flapping timeout may be desirable. As-is the value is hardcoded and always enabled for all battery/ups devices connected. Feel free to use the code and I can certify this patch was 100% authored by me and I have the rights to grant usage of the code to this xfce project under it's original license terms.
Some write-up here: https://superuser.com/questions/1433936/power-manager-notifications-repeating-incessantly-power-problems Just conjecture, but reproducibility might have something to do with lithium-ion battery capacity loss. When I noticed this, the last full charge of my battery was suspiciously close to 95% of design capacity: $ acpitool -B Battery #1 : present Remaining capacity : unknown, 98.58%, 00:02:27 Design capacity : 5200 mA Last full capacity : 4945 mA, 95.10% of design capacity Capacity loss : 4.904% Present rate : 1707 mA Charging state : Charging Battery type : Li-ion Model number : 45N1005 Serial number : 35581 This bug dates back to 2010 at least. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110787 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777746 https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12755 https://forum.manjaro.org/t/asked-how-to-turn-off-notification-of-power-manager-and-cant-install-packager-in-manjaro/3179 https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=13017 https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1968997 https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/9gggmx/plugged_in_t410_cycles_between_ac_and_battery/
Interesting point Nathaniel. My laptop battery is completely dead because it's so old, so this may be a factor. I believe I just turned the notification off!
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