no battery applet in icewm

six6 · 10-27-2004, 10:33 PM

So yeah, I have a compaq presario 700 laptop with acpi and acpid and icewm, etc. But I don't have a battery applet showing up on the taskbar. How can I get this? I searched around here and on the web to no avail (most of the time, it just "shows up" for others with laptops).

The battery applet works well in gnome.

haimeltjnfg · 10-28-2004, 08:12 PM

when it shows up on laptops, do you mean with debian or with other distributions?

macondo · 10-28-2004, 10:18 PM

maybe it's disabled on the ~/.icewm/preferences

six6 · 11-01-2004, 04:32 PM

@ haimeltjnfg

I mean with debian. I haven't tried other distributions on this laptop, and probably won't for a long time.

@ macondo

It doesn't seem to be disabled in there: the only pertinent information in that file seems to be about being able to ignore multiple batteries, and anyway, that's all commented out.

Also, /proc/acpi/battery contains my battery, and I don't have apm. Any ideas?