Bug originally reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-power-manager/+bug/405935 After installing xfce4-power-manager and uninstalling gnome-power-manager, I clicked Applications > Settings > Xfce4 Power Manager. I was presented with a dialogue window noting that the Xfce4 power manager was not running and asked me if I would like to launch it. Clicking "Run" dismisses the dialogue but nothing after that happens and xfce4-power-manager isn't running. Attempting to try again, I get the same results. I then realized that gnome-power-manager is probably still running and maybe thats causing issues. After killing gnome-power-manager, xfce4-power-manager started successfully. xfce4-power-manager should provide feedback when it fails to start. --- This was reported against xfce4-power-manager 0.8.2. I saw that several g_error()s have been added in 0.8.3 to be more verbose. But a message in $HOME/.xsession-errors is not very "visible" for the end-user, maybe a dialog box could be added in this specific case? Thanks for your great app!
(In reply to comment #0) > > I then realized that gnome-power-manager is probably still running and maybe > thats causing issues. After killing gnome-power-manager, xfce4-power-manager > started successfully. > Yes it is, xfce4-power-manager refuses to start if gnome power manager is running and vise-versa, gnome power manager doesn't provide a dialog saying "An already running power manager found in this session". We had this dialog back in 0.8.0, but the problem is sometimes the session tries to load many instances on startup because of a problem on the cache or whatever, and this end up having multiple dialog complaining to the user, very bad, it remembers me Windows :). I will think of a solution for this, there will be a 0.8.3.1 release soon, but of course this won't be added to this release.