[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#612611: Bug#612611: xfce4-power-manager: Does not work, with DBus activated HAL

[livigagl at member.fsf.org (Livio Gagliardi)]

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 10:54:30 +0000, Luca Niccoli wrote:

>  As a workaround if someone gets bitten, you can use dbus-send to
>  activate hal, for instance running
>  bus-send --system  --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal
>  /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer org.freedesktop.Hal
>  in autostart.

As a workaround I simply put the following line in my /etc/rc.local file:

/usr/sbin/hald

Cheers,

Livio.