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--- laptop_hacks [2017/08/16 19:03] – [Laptop Hacks] admin
+++ laptop_hacks [2017/08/16 19:08] – [Power Disconnect/Connect events] admin
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 Maybe it'll help you too - but you will almost certainly need to some make tweaks for your particular setup.
-Why go through all this? Why not just use a full DE like KDE or gnome to take care of it? With KDE the best I could get (without digging just as deep as I have done here) was about 4 hours of battery life. By doing the hard work and understanding what's going on I can get up to 6.5 hours! Not bad.
+Why go through all this? Why not just use a full DE like KDE or gnome to take care of it? With KDE the best I could get was about 4 hours of battery life. By doing the hard work and understanding what's going on I can get up to 6.5 hours! Not bad.
 ====Who's doing the work?====
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   # if there's a battery battery then listen on dbus for a/c connect/disconnect:
-  upower -e |grep -q battery && power-monitor &
+  upower -e |grep -q battery && {
+      power-monitor &
+      xfce4-power-manager &
+  }
 Where, ''power-monitor'' is this bit of python which keeps an eye on remaining battery life (and hibernate as it gets low) but also runs the ''low-power'' script when the power/battery status changes: