icewm vs kde acpi

sk8guitar · 08-11-2003, 12:04 PM

ok, here is the situation, i'm on a laptop and obvoiusly i would like to be able to monitor my battery

now for a while i could do this. but of course, all good things come to end when i messed up my partitions and had to reinstall.

and now it doesn't show the battery monitor. acpi works fine, but when i do acpi -V it only shows if the ac-adapter is plugged in. but...the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state file shows the charging and capacity, so its not like its not being read.

so yesterday iw as just playing around and installed fluxbox and then i switched to icewm and whadda know, it shows the battery capacity on the taskbar.

problem is, i doon't like using icewm, or at least i would like to have the ability to see my battery capcity in kde.

so does anyone know how to go about setting this up?

sk8guitar · 08-11-2003, 12:23 PM

aaand i'm an idiot

all i had to do was enable the system tray and go to klaptop and make sure it showed the battery monitor. man i feel stupid

sk8guitar · 08-11-2003, 12:27 PM

but one thing, i was trying to compile kbatt and i was getting this error:

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.

and here is the end of config.log

Code:

configure: failed program was:
#include "confdefs.h"
#include <qglobal.h>
#include <qapplication.h>
#include <qevent.h>
#include <qstring.h>
#include <qstyle.h>
#include <qiconview.h>
#if ! (QT_VERSION >= 222)
#error 1
#endif

int main() {
    QStringList *t = new QStringList();
    QIconView iv(0);
    iv.setWordWrapIconText(false);
    QString s;
    s.setLatin1("Elvis is alive", 14);
    int magnolia = QEvent::Speech; /* new in 2.2 beta2 */
    return 0;
}

and so i looked up what the hell qt was and apparently kde was built with it? and should come with it? so i'm kind of curious as to why this failed

trickykid · 08-11-2003, 12:31 PM

If your running KDE you have QT installed but its either not finding it in your current users path or you have a newer or older version not compatible with kbatt.

kev82 · 08-11-2003, 01:19 PM

Quote:

by sk8guitar
configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found.

your missing the qt development libraries, mandrake does not seem to be very geared to compiling things from source(have a look at neorich's thread in programming). the solution is to find the qt development rpms. good luck.

sk8guitar · 08-11-2003, 02:38 PM

rock on, thanks