2 battery widget icons

[Andreas Petzold]

Hi,

Quoting Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:

> I've seen this once before- and now it's back.  Battery monitor is showing 2
> icons in panel.
>
> I thought maybe there were 2 instances, so I deleted one, and both icons
> disappeared.  Adding back battery widget, I've got 2 icons again.
> kdebase-4.2.1-2.fc10.x86_64

I've seen an instance of this problem too quite recently. I've found  
an explanation for this, however I didn't investigate any further.

I booted the laptop with the small battery. During boot-up I decided  
to switch to the big battery, so I switched batteries. When I fired up  
kde: the battery plasmoid thinks I have two batteries WTF?

Google told me that other people had a similar problem but in their  
case the second battery was a real one from a wireless mouse. In this  
case lshal showed the second (mouse) battery. HAL is where the  
plasmoid gets the battery info from.

So I checked with lshal, and sure enough, it showed two batteries.  
IIRC the output of lshal suggested that hal still knew that the  
batteries were different, but still it was showing the same percentage  
for both the batteries. Once I get home I'll try again to reproduce  
the problem. Maybe it's a problem in HAL (or HAL + laptop oddities)  
and not in the battery plasmoid.

Maybe you can check what lshal reports on your machine and if it makes  
any sense at all?

Cheers,

Andreas