SOLVED Re: laptop battery life monitor plasmoid

[O. Sinclair]

O. Sinclair wrote:
> Does anyone know of a plasmoid or app that can show the remaining 
> battery life in time, not percentage?
> 
> I am on 9.10 and upgraded to KDE 4.3.5 and have for some time been 
> asking myself what value it has to me that the battery life plasmoid 
> only shows "percentage remaining". Either a choice to see time 
> (estimated, I know) or an option somewhere to configure would be great.
> 
> It is a bit irritating to have to open a console and do "sudo powertop" 
> to get a time estimate.
Found it myself by pure coincidence:
More detailed:
- close plasma-desktop
- open ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc in a editor
- search for plugin=battery
you should see something like this:

[Containments][3][Applets][9]
geometry=2,689.5,35,35
immutability=1
plugin=battery
zvalue=270

[Containments][3][Applets][9][Configuration]
Share=false

- If here is no [Configuration] Section create it
- add the line showRemainingTime=true to this Section
- restart plasma-desktop

pull the powercable, wait a bit and you get a remainin time estimate