Presentation mode in Xfce Power Manager

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Presentation mode in Xfce Power Manager

Post by H.Remedy »

Xfce's Power Manager can place an icon in the notification area. One of the options in that icon's menu is to change modes between "normal" and "presentation". But I cannot see any way to program the behaviour of these two modes. There is nothing related to them in the settings. Is there a way I can program them?

I was looking around the internet and found reference to an xfconf-query command in terminal. Perhaps the settings I'm looking for are there hidden and can be changed with this? Not sure how...

As always, thanks in advance for any help!
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Re: Presentation mode in Xfce Power Manager

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'Normal mode' configuration is done in the power settings, as normal. I assume that 'presentation mode' simply disables power-saving features, such as the screen going blank. I don't see any reason why this would be configurable, since if you're using the computer for a presentation, you would always want to prevent the screen from going blank or switching off. What would you expect to configure?
H.Remedy

Re: Presentation mode in Xfce Power Manager

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Actually, I would ideally like to be able to create new profiles beyond the two defaults. (Is there a way to do this?) I was asking about normal and presentation modes because I can't see a way to create other profiles, so the next best thing would be to edit the existing profiles.

I can see situations where different presentation modes would be useful. e.g. if I plug my computer into the TV to play a movie, I would like the screen to turn off in a very short time. There are a couple of other scenarios I could think of...
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Re: Presentation mode in Xfce Power Manager

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I think presentation mode is only an on or off thing. What you want is a general means to configure different power schemes.

You might want to look at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Power ... ducedPower
H.Remedy

Re: Presentation mode in Xfce Power Manager

Post by H.Remedy »

Thanks Buzzsaw, that's some interesting reading. I guess there's no nice GUI approach to this stuff. That's ok, I grew up in the DOS days, so terminal doesn't intimidate me. :lol:
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