battery power monitor for laptop

Lleb_KCir · 05-03-2005, 07:52 PM

i use debian with the 2.6.8 kernel running KDE (3.3 or 3.4 can not remember and do not know how to find out) on my Panasonic laptop. it is a CF-48x if that matters or helps. Under windows there is a basic desktop setting to manage the power and place a battery icon in the system tray so you know when it is time to recharge your battery.

is there something like that in KDE and were would i look, or do i need to install something via apt-get?

Thank you.

quiescere · 05-03-2005, 08:30 PM

KDE has a battery monitor. Make sure kdeutils3-laptop is installed, and make sure
/opt/kde/share/services/kded/klaptopdaemon.desktop
has the line
X-KDE-Kded-autoload=true
in it.

edit: /opt/kde is the directory on my system--you might have kde installed elsewhere.

quiescere

Lleb_KCir · 05-03-2005, 09:46 PM

ok i have the kdeutils installed, but were in KDE would i go.. sadly i am not able to find any directory close to what you discribe. still a mega newbie

quiescere · 05-03-2005, 10:16 PM

I think debian stores the relevant file at
/usr/share/services/kded/klaptopdaemon.desktop

If it's not there, try opening a terminal window and issuing the command

Code:

cd $KDEDIR/share/services/kded/

A little more information is availabe at the kdelaptopdaemon package page.

quiescere

Lleb_KCir · 05-04-2005, 05:30 PM

turns out i need to recompile my kernel, not all of the power settings were applied during install thus i am not able to get access to the battery monitor... *frowns*

hopefully i will be able to get some help from my LUG to recompile my kernel.