Bookworm/Boron Xfce4 Power Manager systray icon

hhh · 2023-02-14 11:10:16

Trying to debug this, frustrated...

https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTe … ssues/2615

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1945599

Neither link is of much help to me.

johnraff · 2023-02-15 02:29:42

No, the XFCE developers seem to have no interest in getting the systray icon displayed nicely. They've moved on to a different framework. We struggled hard with this issue for Beryllium - I was hoping a fix might have come down from upstream by now, but no such luck.

But BL shipped a patched xfce4-power-manager for Beryllium which had OK icons. I'm hoping that applying the same patches will work in the Bookworm version too, but I haven't looked at it at all yet. If the particular file(s) involved haven't changed much in the upgrade then it might be OK.

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 81#p125981
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 77#p116177

So I think that should be tried before either of us invests time in searching for a different solution. It's on my todo list...

hhh · 2023-02-15 06:04:19

OK, that works! (for Papirus, Papirus-Dark, Papirus-Bunsen-*)

Tutorial...

Download the *.deb file here...

https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian/pool/ … _amd64.deb

32bit...

https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian/pool/ … 3_i386.deb

cd Downloads (or wherever you've downloaded it to), then...

sudo dpkg --force-all -i *.deb

Logout.

This command assumes that you have no other deb files in your Downloads folder. Otherwise, call the package by name. Using the 32bit package for example...

sudo dpkg --force-all -i  xfce4-power-manager_4.16.0-1+x.bl11.iconpatch3_i386.deb

Thanks John, brilliant!

Note: This package will be overwritten if/when xfce4-power-manager gets updated. Let's just hope that any new package has a fix for this issue. Otherwise, pin the patched version and complain here...

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager

johnraff · 2023-02-16 02:39:26

^Very soon I'm going to try if the same hack can be applied to the current xfce4-power-manager, so users will get whatever other improvements came between 4.16 and 4.18 (Looking at the tag descriptions, they don't seem to have touched the icon handling.)

I have little hope of an upstream fix for the icons. The issue still stands, and has had no attention for two years:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-powe … issues/104
The devs seem to be interested only in supporting the panel plugin now, leaving the "legacy" systray icon as it is.

Edit: but this vaguely hopeful message 10 mths ago: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-powe … note_44690

Last edited by johnraff (2023-02-16 02:52:44)

PackRat · 2023-02-16 13:33:41

In Debian, what are the dependency differences between xfce4-power-manager and mate-power-manager. It's negligible in Arch and Void.

Nearly identical as far as features and user interface goes. Not sure how the memory footprint compares. No problems with the mate-power-manager tray icon. Maybe a swap?

Void Linux, openbox, tint2, mate-power-manager:

Last edited by PackRat (2023-02-16 13:34:28)

rbh · 2023-02-16 22:22:09

PackRat wrote:

In Debian, what are the dependency differences between xfce4-power-manager and mate-power-manager. It's negligible in Arch and Void.

BL Beryllium/Bookworm

xfce4-power-manager_4.18.0-1_amd64.deb
Depends:
upower, xfce4-power-manager-data (= 4.18.0-1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.55.2), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libupower-glib3 (>= 0.99.8), libx11-6, libxext6, libxfce4ui-2-0 (>= 4.11.1), libxfce4util7 (>= 4.9.0), libxfconf-0-3 (>= 4.6.0), libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.2)

mate-power-manager_1.26.0-2_amd64.deb
Depends:
default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus, mate-notification-daemon | notification-daemon, mate-power-manager-common (= 1.26.0-2), policykit-1, systemd | elogind | consolekit, upower, libc6 (>= 2.27), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libcanberra-gtk3-0 (>= 0.25), libcanberra0 (>= 0.2), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.4), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4), libmate-panel-applet-4-1 (>= 1.18), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.11), libupower-glib3 (>= 0.99.8), libx11-6, libxext6, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.2)

johnraff · 2023-02-17 00:57:54

PackRat wrote:

In Debian, what are the dependency differences between xfce4-power-manager and mate-power-manager. It's negligible in Arch and Void.
Nearly identical as far as features and user interface goes. Not sure how the memory footprint compares. No problems with the mate-power-manager tray icon. Maybe a swap?

We considered m-p-m a while ago when various things came up with x-p-m, and at the time my overall impression was: a bit heavier in both dependencies and system load, and slightly fewer features.

But those aren't huge differences and mate-power-manager may have changed lately so it's worth having another look - thanks for the reminder!

I plan to upload today a version of xfce4-power-manager 4.18.0-1 tweaked in the same way we did for 4.16.0-1, to fix the icons issue by reverting the commits which changed its behaviour. Fingers crossed that it works. But if m-p-m is a good alternative it's always better to use standard packages.

johnraff · 2023-02-17 04:19:02

xfce4-power-manager 4.18.0+bl12.iconpatch1-1 and x-p-m-data are in the BL bookworm-backports repo now.
@boron testers: please enable the BL backports (named bookworm-backports!) and try an apt update/upgrade.
The tweaked x-p-m should be pulled in - does it fix the icon issues for you? (Looks OK on my VM.)

Apt line for BL backports (or just run bl-welcome again):

deb https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian bookworm-backports main

hhh · 2023-02-17 17:26:20

johnraff wrote:

@boron testers: please enable the BL backports (named bookworm-backports!) and try an apt update/upgrade.
The tweaked x-p-m should be pulled in - does it fix the icon issues for you?

Yes, that patch worked!

Note that because I had the 4.16 patched version installed, I had to run...

sudo apt install xfce4-power-manager

in order to also pull in the 4.18 version of xfce4-power-manager-data. Just running apt upgrade confuses apt, but that will work fine if you are currently running the unpatched 4.18 version provided in bookworm.

dhalgren · 2023-02-17 21:07:41

It made no difference to my power icon (but I'm not that bothered by this at the moment).

johnraff · 2023-02-18 00:38:15

hhh wrote:

Note that because I had the 4.16 patched version installed, I had to run...
sudo apt install xfce4-power-manager
in order to also pull in the 4.18 version of xfce4-power-manager-data. Just running apt upgrade confuses apt...

I provisionally put the patched 4.18 into bookworm-backports, so 'apt upgrade' should restore the regular unpatched 4.18 from Debian. I hope that was the case? To get the patched 4.18, this should be necessary:

apt install -t bookworm-backports xfce4-power-manager

Did you get it without referring to backports? If so I need to think about it some more...

Anyway I'll try duplicating what you did - first manually install the patched 4.16 - and see what happens.

The idea of using backports was to protect users from getting an experimental package they might not want. If there seemed to be no problems I was thinking it could later be moved into the regular BL repo.

EDIT @hhh I think the upgrade difficulty you hit might have been that 'dpkg --force-all' was overlooking the necessary xfce4-power-manager-data when you installed the Beryllium package. So later, apt got confused. Maybe if you'd installed x-p-m-data from Beryllium along with x-p-m (and not used --force-all) it might have gone more smoothly.

Last edited by johnraff (2023-02-18 03:03:31)

johnraff · 2023-02-18 00:44:02

dhalgren wrote:

It made no difference to my power icon (but I'm not that bothered by this at the moment).

If you don't mind me firing a few questions at you:
Is this a desktop or laptop?
How does the power icon look? Any different from in Beryllium?
What version of xfce4-power-manager are you using now? Did the patched version get installed?
Try:

apt policy xfce4-power-manager

dhalgren · 2023-02-18 02:08:53

johnraff wrote:

Is this a desktop or laptop?
How does the power icon look? Any different from in Beryllium?
What version of xfce4-power-manager are you using now? Did the patched version get installed?
Try:
apt policy xfce4-power-manager

I am on a laptop.

The icon appears totally black, except when charging when it is coloured green (if my partially colour bind eyes are not deceiving me). In Beryllium the icon was white.

bruce@inana:~$ apt policy xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-power-manager:
  Installed: 4.18.0-1
  Candidate: 4.18.0-1
  Version table:
     4.18.0+bl12.iconpatch1-1 100
        100 https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian bookworm-backports/main amd64 Packages
 *** 4.18.0-1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

johnraff · 2023-02-18 02:14:23

Ah OK you've still got the unpatched version.
Try this:

sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports xfce4-power-manager

Is the icon white now?

dhalgren · 2023-02-18 02:40:35

Yes, the icon is white!

Just goes to show that I should not have used synaptic to install the patched version. (I made the mistake almost certainly, but less likely when using CLI.)

Last edited by dhalgren (2023-02-18 02:41:06)

johnraff · 2023-02-18 02:54:42

^Thanks for the quick feedback!

OK it looks as if the icon issue is fixed - but we ought to wait a bit to make sure xfce4-power-manager hasn't been broken in some other subtle way. Fingers crossed...

or1o9 · 2023-02-18 07:02:04

Same as @dhalgren here. The icon is white now, had to log out and back in.

or1o9 · 2023-03-10 04:15:20

And suddenly the battery icon has turned black again.

apt policy xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-power-manager:
  Installed: 4.18.1-1
  Candidate: 4.18.1-1

This is after recent update, anyone else?

johnraff · 2023-03-10 04:35:30

This means I'll have to make and upload a patched xfce4-power-manager 4.18.1-1.

What you get for being ahead of the game and putting out stuff before Testing has finished settling down...

But thanks for catching it!

dhalgren · 2023-03-11 06:54:37

Yep, the latest update and suddenly the battery icon is black again.

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