LXDE 15 Battery monitoring for Toshiba netbook

Ranjan Maitra maitra at iastate.edu
Tue Jun 14 21:36:41 UTC 2011


On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:20:51 -0500 Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 14.06.2011, 15:52 -0500 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:20:15 -0500 pc.support <pc.support at wanadoo.es>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > has someone an idea, how I can install the battery monitoring (announcement) for a Toshiba netbook.
> > > I have LXDE 15.
> > > 
> > > an where can I find the energy options?
> > > 
> > > So the system crashes always, when the netbook runs out of power.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > 
> > > hnp
> > 
> > Not sure about the form of announcement you would like, but there is
> > such a thing as a battery monitor. Do a right click on the lxpanel, and
> > click on add/remove panel items. One is a rudimentary battery monitor.
> > It is not great, and deserves rework, but at least a crude item is very
> > much there.
> 
> The problem is that it doesn't work with recent kernels, see
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561311
> 
> I suggest to install either batti, gnome-power-manager or
> xfce4-power-manager. All are available in Fedora's repos. batti is the
> smallest, xfce4-power-manager the one with the most options.

Thanks, Christoph! I am curious: can xfce4-power-manager be used in the
LXDE panel? If so, how?

best wishes,
Ranjan



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