GNOME battery applet eats CPU

[Lauri Jutila]

> I've just installed Fedora FC1 on my laptop. The first
> thing I noticed was that my laptop responded very sluggish.
> After checking with top a found out that the GNOME battery applet
> was eating a lot of CPU. After disabling the applet the systems
> responds as it should.

Hello Jurgen,

You might want to check out Mike Hardy's "Linux on Dell Latitude D800"
page that has a patch for the battery applet. By default the applet
seems to check battery status every second (I don't know why :)), but
Mike's patch makes it to check status every 30 seconds.

You can find Mike's page at http://mikehardy.net/linux_latitude_d800/

Regards,

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