Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Till <Till.Potinius@×××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Applet Problem with Batterie Applet
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:12:55
Message-Id: 46B20106.7090001@justmoments.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gnome Applet Problem with Batterie Applet by Kabel The Real
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4 Kabel The Real schrieb:
5 > Hi out there,
6 >
7 > I own an IBM Thinkpad T60, and I use Gentoo with Gnome. Everything is
8 > working very good, except on applet, the "Batterie Charge Monitor"
9 > Applet. Well this applet or a similar one is very important for me,
10 > because I mostly use my notebook without Power Supply... When I want to
11 > add the applet to my Panel I get the following Error message: The panel
12 > encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_BattstatApplet".
13 > Now I know that the batterie Status indicator is working, because when I
14 > use Kismet it's telling me how long I have batterie. Always starting
15 > Kismet to know how long my power last isn't the right thing to do, so
16 > I'm asking you if you can help me, either to fix the problem with that
17 > applet or indicate me anotherone or a shellcommand to find out how long
18 > the power will last...
19 >
20 > I'm happy for any hint,
21
22 With the tp_smapi module, you could use:
23 cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/remaining_percent
24
25 And the time in minutes:
26 cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/remaining_running_time
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28 Everything is well explained on:
29 http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi
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32 Till
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