> New laptop, installed Debian Wheezy AMD64, which is Debians current
> testing branch
> and TDE 3.5.14 from nightly builds., built for Wheezy.
>
> TDE is working  well here. Since this is a laptop install I want to
> usekpowersave.
> I get the kpowersave icon in my systray but there is no inormation or
> options
> available when I right click on the icon.

Do you have HAL installed?  Is HAL running?

There is another application I wrote to directly interact with the new TDE
hardware library (bypassing HAL altogether), but it does not have a
Debian/Ubuntu package available from the nightly builds yet.  Sources are
here: http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/kpowersave-nohal/

Tim