I was messing around with my system trying to understand why xfce4 wouldn't handle my backlight keys, and I realized the utility for handling this kind of stuff is not installed when using the ebuild. If I compile it manually the tool is built and installed, the name of the binary is xfpm-power-backlight-helper. Usage: xfpm-power-backlight-helper [OPTION?] XFCE Power Manager Backlight Helper Help Options: -h, --help Show help options Application Options: --set-brightness Set the current brightness --get-brightness Get the current brightness --get-max-brightness Get the number of brightness levels supported --set-brightness-switch Enable or disable ACPI video brightness switch handling --get-brightness-switch Get the current setting of the ACPI video brightness switch handling As far as I understand it, we need the tool to control brightness under xfce4 using xfce4-power-manager although I didn't have the time to read the code seems like some other binaries are missing as well. After doing a manual install in tmp I have: /tmp/bin/xfce4-power-manager /tmp/bin/xfce4-power-manager-settings /tmp/sbin/xfce4-pm-helper /tmp/sbin/xfpm-power-backlight-helper qlist xfce4-power-manager | grep bin just shows the 2 first binaries are installed, but nothing is in fact installed in /sbin, not sure if the ebuild is missing any other files. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge xfce4-power-manager 2.wget http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/1.7/xfce4-power-manager-1.7.0.tar.bz2 3. tar xpf xfce4-power-manager-1.7.0.tar.bz2 -C /tmp 4. do you configure make dance. 5. Compare the 2 results. Actual Results: The binaries which should be installed in /sbin are not installed. Expected Results: All the binaries should be installed so the package can work properly.
Sorry I just realized it was my mistake, I was missing the policykit use flag, you can close this bug, the binaries are in place after setting the use flag.
