On 2023-04-15 22:36:21, Jim Jackson wrote:
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> On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
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> > Jim Jackson wrote:
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> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > just wondering is anyone knows why upowerd is needed on a non-battery
> > > desktop? Nearly everything depends on it - just try to purge it!!!
> > >
> > > And there doesn't appear to be a clean way to deconfigure it from being
> > > started by dbus - are have I missed something?
> >
> > Hi Jim,
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> > Heavy desktops have heavy dependencies. I would first try
> > disabling it one of the dirty ways, for example,
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> > chmod a-x /etc/init.d/upowerd
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> :-) yep started there - but no luck there is no /etc/init.d/upowerd
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> The daemon is started by dbus - the executable is /usr/libexec/upowerd
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> > At least that way you can know if it breaks your desktop.
> >
> > Not all environments require it. On my system, it's only
> > pulled in by xfce, which i don't actually use.
> >
> > for f in `apt-cache rdepends upower | grep -v upower | grep -v Reverse `;
> > do dpkg -l $f 2>&1; done | grep -P '^ii'
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> The important ones are
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> ii  lxqt-powermanagement 0.16.0-1     amd64        power management module for LXQt
> ii  lightdm        1.26.0-7+devuan3 amd64        simple display manager

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> I use a simple setup of lightdm, openbox and lxpanel

I'm using lxdm, openbox, and lxpanel on Chimaera. upower isn't
installed, nor lxqt-powermanagement. I turn off the automatic install of
recommends.

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