Bug 264678

Summary:	how to cleanup powerdevil profile
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] solid	Reporter:	Ezio Vergine <virgolus>
Component:	powermanagement	Assignee:	Dario Freddi <drf>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Ezio Vergine 2011-01-28 22:15:02 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

I've upgraded kde 4.5.5 to 4.6 with kubuntu repository. I've deleted all .powerdevil* config files from .kde/share/config|apps and entered power management from systemsettings. The new menu is very beatiful and intuitive but I've a profile called "powersave" that I can't delete or modify. If I add a new profile I can delete or modify it. But the main problem are two:
1)if I click on the icon on system tray the popup whait about 3 second to appear and the  "screen brightness" slider doesn't work. I've deleted the entire .kde dir and the problem is resolved. What file I should delete for resolve the problem
2) with kde 4.5.5 I can set cpu freq with this command: 
"solid-powermanagement set cpufreq powersave". There is a way to reproduce the same effects with the new power manager?

Thanks a lot and sorry for my english.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Dario Freddi 2011-01-29 13:37:32 UTC

Thanks for your feedback. Answering your points:

1a. Regarding the "Powersave" profile, it is expected: default profiles are now persistent to prevent configuration issues - although you are not forced to use them.
1b. Apparently, it is a plasma-related problem. Try deleting .kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc and see if it works. If it does, you can just remove the section regarding the battery applet from that file.
2. Unfortunately not, as the feature has been removed from upstream tools. HAL used to provide such a feature, but upower (its replacement, now used by KDE) doesn't. Ideally, you should not need to change the frequency manually no more, but if you still have some specific needs, you should be able to alter some files in /proc. Unfortunately at the moment the method does not come to my mind (I'm not changing the governor since a year and everything is fine here), but a search on google should help you.

Hope this helped.

Comment 2 Dario Freddi 2011-01-30 23:42:27 UTC

(Marking as invalid anyway, as it was a support request and not a bug)