Klaptopdaemon / Battery Monitor

[Rick Knight]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Rick Knight wrote:
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>> Derek Broughton wrote:
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>>> Rick Knight wrote:
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>>>> I'm not sure if I have the right tools here, but on my laptop (Compaq
>>>> nc8230) I used to get a battery monitor on the task bar. This battery
>>>> monitor was available with Dapper and Feisty and I think with Dapper's
>>>> predecessor, but not in Gutsy. Klaptopdaemon is installed and I've also
>>>> installed kdeutils, but I can't seem to get the battery monitor. Can
>>>> someone here tell me what to do to get the battery monitor back?
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>>> The default kicker applet is  kde-guidance-powermanager (from the package
>>> kde-guidance-powermanager).  That's not the battery applet that was
>>> default in feisty, iirc, but seems to do the job for me.
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>> Derek,
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>> Thanks for the reply. I found the guidance-power-manager.py applet. When
>> I try to start it I get errors.
>>
>> rick at rick-laptop:~$ guidance-power-manager
>> rick at rick-laptop:~$ No battery found.
>> No AC adapter found - assume that we are on batteries.
>> Warning: While setting SystemPowerManagement to  True :
>> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.NotSupported: No
>> powersave method found
>> No AC adapter found - assume that we are on batteries.
>>
>> Running this does give me the battery icon in task bar, but that icon
>> only shows my cpu frequency. Something's broken or something is still
>> missing. Any suggestions?
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> I think guidance-power-manager is the gnome applet.  What you want to run is
> definitely kde-guidance-powermanager.
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It seems guidance-power-manager is the backend for kde-guidance and 
gnome-powermanage. I have kde-guidance running now and showing the icon 
in the task bar, but I still have no battery stats. I can see my cpu 
frequency and I can see that Power Manager is managing the cpu speed, 
but still no battery.

Thanks again,
Rick