Would it be possible to somehow integrate PowerTop into this program? That would be great!

Fist of all: great work!

Second: a request - could you incorporate some disk power management features? (goal: reducing spin down cycles for laptop-hdds)

http://en.opensuse.org/Disk_Power_Management

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Andreas

Are there going to be any updates? I find it more stable than the power devil so if you think about fixing the minor annoyances it would be better.
--manik

For some reason I needed to kill the running app after it disappeared from my panel and the name "li" was not the most obvious one - please consider changing it to "lithiun"

good work!
one problem:
there's no idle action for selection, it only shows "no action". Did I miss some depencies?

Hi ,

I compiled the new KDE 4 Power Management package “Lithium” for Kubuntu Hardy x86.

Visit me !!!

http://rebelyouth.wordpress.com

and not lithium, bit confusing

I've just tried it in Kubuntu, and I love it. Simple and clean, while making the important information and controls easily accessible. Way to go.

Very very good application; I love this application.

Regard

Excellent app. I just wanted to have said that. Also... if you ever plan on including translations, contact me if you need a dutch one. I'll be pleased to provide you one.

Excellent work! Is there a development source repository for this application?

I'm trying to install this but I keep getting errors during 'make'. I'm using Kubuntu 8.04, 64bit and KDE 4.1.

Quote:[ 16%] Generating ui_config.h
Generating lithium.moc
Scanning dependencies of target li
[ 33%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/li.dir/li_automoc.o
[ 50%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/li.dir/lithium.o
In file included from /home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:46:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.h:24:40: error: solid/control/powermanager.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:48:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:129:7: warning: no newline at end of file
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:330:40: error: kworkspace/kdisplaymanager.h: No such file or directory
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:333:2: warning: #warning Replace this hack after KRunner is fixed
In file included from /home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:46:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.h:26: error: ‘Solid::Control’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.h:26: error: ‘PowerManager’ is not a namespace-name
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.h:26: error: expected namespace-name before ‘;’ token
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.h:81: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.h:81: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘method’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.h: In member function ‘int Lithium::brightness() const’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.h:57: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.h: In member function ‘void Lithium::setBrightness(int)’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.h:74: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
In file included from /home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:48:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h: At global scope:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:27: error: ‘Solid::Control’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:27: error: ‘PowerManager’ is not a namespace-name
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:27: error: expected namespace-name before ‘;’ token
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:45: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:45: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘SuspendMethod’ with no type
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:45: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘autoSuspendMethod’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:46: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:46: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘method’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:110: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:110: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘CpuFreqPolicy’ with no type
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:110: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘cpuFreqPolicy’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:111: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:111: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘policy’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:121: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:121: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘CpuFreqPolicy’ with no type
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:121: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘m_policy’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:122: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:122: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘SuspendMethod’ with no type
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/powerscheme.h:122: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘m_suspendMethod’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: In constructor ‘PowerInfoTooltip::PowerInfoTooltip(QSystemTrayIcon*)’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:67: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:67: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: In member function ‘void PowerInfoTooltip::addBatteryInfo(QWidget*, QBoxLayout*)’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:145: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:147: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:147: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:148: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: In constructor ‘Lithium::Lithium(KAboutData*)’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:245: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:245: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:246: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:247: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:248: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: In member function ‘void Lithium::detectedActivity()’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:316: warning: unused variable ‘scheme’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: In member function ‘void Lithium::checkIdle()’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:378: error: ‘class PowerScheme’ has no member named ‘autoSuspendMethod’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:384: error: ‘class PowerScheme’ has no member named ‘autoSuspendMethod’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: In member function ‘void Lithium::initSchemes()’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:422: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:423: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:423: error: expected `;' before ‘method’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:424: error: ‘method’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:427: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:428: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:428: error: expected `;' before ‘policy’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:429: error: ‘policy’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:442: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:443: error: expected type-specifier before ‘PM’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:443: error: expected `>' before ‘PM’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:443: error: expected `(' before ‘PM’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:443: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:443: error: expected `)' before ‘;’ token
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:451: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:452: error: expected type-specifier before ‘PM’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:452: error: expected `>' before ‘PM’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:452: error: expected `(' before ‘PM’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:452: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:452: error: expected `)' before ‘;’ token
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: In member function ‘void Lithium::initContextMenu()’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:468: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:468: error: expected `;' before ‘sMethods’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:470: error: ‘PM’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:470: error: template argument 1 is invalid
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:470: error: invalid type in declaration before ‘;’ token
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:471: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:472: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:473: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h: At global scope:
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h: In instantiation of ‘QForeachContainer<int>’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:477: instantiated from here
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h:1977: error: ‘int’ is not a class, struct, or union type
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h:1977: error: ‘int’ is not a class, struct, or union type
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: In member function ‘void Lithium::initContextMenu()’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:477: error: ‘class QForeachContainer<int>’ has no member named ‘i’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:477: error: ‘class QForeachContainer<int>’ has no member named ‘e’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:477: error: ‘class QForeachContainer<int>’ has no member named ‘i’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:477: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:477: error: expected `;' before ‘method’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:478: error: ‘sMethods’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:478: error: ‘method’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:483: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:487: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:491: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:495: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:510: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:510: error: expected `;' before ‘current’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:511: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:511: error: expected `;' before ‘policies’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:513: error: ‘PM’ cannot appear in a constant-expression
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:513: error: template argument 1 is invalid
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:513: error: invalid type in declaration before ‘;’ token
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:514: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:515: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:516: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:517: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:518: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:522: error: ‘class QForeachContainer<int>’ has no member named ‘i’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:522: error: ‘class QForeachContainer<int>’ has no member named ‘e’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:522: error: ‘class QForeachContainer<int>’ has no member named ‘i’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:522: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:522: error: expected `;' before ‘policy’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:523: error: ‘policies’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:523: error: ‘policy’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:528: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:531: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:534: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:537: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:540: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:543: error: ‘PM’ is not a class or namespace
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:549: error: ‘current’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: In member function ‘void Lithium::setCpuFreq(QAction*)’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:604: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:604: error: expected `;' before ‘policy’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:605: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:605: error: ‘policy’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: At global scope:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:602: warning: unused parameter ‘action’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: In member function ‘void Lithium::setPowerScheme(PowerScheme*)’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:618: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:620: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:622: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:652: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:652: error: ‘class PowerScheme’ has no member named ‘cpuFreqPolicy’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:654: error: ‘class PowerScheme’ has no member named ‘cpuFreqPolicy’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: In member function ‘void Lithium::suspend(QAction*)’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:663: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:663: error: expected `;' before ‘method’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:664: error: ‘method’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp: At global scope:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:661: warning: unused parameter ‘action’
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:667: error: variable or field ‘suspend’ declared void
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:667: error: ‘PM’ has not been declared
In file included from /home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:983:
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h: In constructor ‘QForeachContainer<T>::QForeachContainer(const T&) [with T = int]’:
/home/kevin/plasmoids/li/lithium.cpp:477: instantiated from here
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h:1974: error: using invalid field ‘QForeachContainer<T>::i’
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h:1974: error: request for member ‘begin’ in ‘((QForeachContainer<int>*)this)->QForeachContainer<int>::c’, which is of non-class type ‘const int’
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h:1974: error: using invalid field ‘QForeachContainer<T>::e’
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h:1974: error: request for member ‘end’ in ‘((QForeachContainer<int>*)this)->QForeachContainer<int>::c’, which is of non-class type ‘const int’
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/li.dir/lithium.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/li.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Kevin, install kdebase-workspace-dev in adept. This should solve your problem.

My pc isn't a laptop but lithium recognize that i have a battery. Maybe an hal problem? How can i check this?

I've prepared PKGBUILD for Arch.
Get it at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19054 or via yaourt.

Enjoy :-)

I use Kubuntu, thanks.
I have a similar application, but in very aplha state, if you interesting see this link http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/PowerManager?content=86544&PHPSESSID=fc1baacc336fd1ed36d9297d5cb9e844. Now I wanted to make a plasmoid for my application.

Hmm... You'll need a dataengine for that. I suggest you use kde4powersave as your starting point if you want to make a plasmoid. :) Try svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/utils/kde4powersave

The error is:

CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
X11_Xscreensaver_LIB (ADVANCED)

Maybe X11_Xscreensaver_LIB should be written in uppercase? I try this and cmake works but make show me this error:

CMakeFiles/li.dir/lithium.o: In function `Lithium::checkIdle()':
/home/f3lip3/apps/li/lithium.cpp:347: undefined reference to `XScreenSaverAllocInfo'
/home/f3lip3/apps/li/lithium.cpp:348: undefined reference to `XScreenSaverQueryInfo'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [li] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/li.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

I try to add #include <X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h> but I got many errors.

Do you by any chance of a libXss.so in /usr/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib or any other library directory?

On Gentoo this is provided by libXScrnSaver. I'm looking for the corresponding debian package. What distro are you using?

Try installing libxss-dev if you are on Ubuntu (and I'm guessing on plain Debian as well). Not sure what rpm provides it for Mandriva, Fedora and openSuse though.

thank you so much :')

Haha:) No prob man :D Still got a lot of work to do on it though