SUMMARY When Powerdevil is not running, navigating to System Settings->Power Management instructs user to enable service in "Startup and Shutdown". STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Kill Powerdevil process in command line 2. Go to System Settings->Power Management; observe error message 3. Go to Startup and Shutdown->Background Services OBSERVED RESULT No Powerdevil / Power managament service listed, as instructed in the error message. EXPECTED RESULT Error message should not instruct to navigate to "Startup and Shutdown", since Powerdevil is started as XDG service? SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.71.0 Qt Version: 5.15.0
Created attachment 129891 [details] Power management error message after Powerdevil killed
Created attachment 129892 [details] Services list #1/2 Power management service not listed, as would be assumed based on the error message.
Created attachment 129893 [details] Services list #2/2 Power management service not listed, as assumed based on the error message.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/-/merge_requests/12
Git commit 06539f067b73da15a1fdbbcd823d63ffe0d543d1 by Nicolas Fella. Committed on 04/07/2020 at 16:37. Pushed by nicolasfella into branch 'master'. [kcm] Remove incorrect information from error message The message refers to the kded KCM, but powerdevil is not a kded module but a service started by xdg autostart M +1 -2 kcmodule/activities/activitypage.cpp M +1 -2 kcmodule/global/GeneralPage.cpp M +1 -2 kcmodule/profiles/EditPage.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/commit/06539f067b73da15a1fdbbcd823d63ffe0d543d1
*** Bug 404804 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***