Battery Plugin Not Working

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Dec 13 17:33:11 CET 2006


On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Nick Schermer wrote:

> That depends on what's not working, if the plugin doesn't crash when you
> add it to the panel, but doesn't show the right information, you can check
> if the /proc/acpi/battery/ directory exists (and if it contains the right
> data).

Nick,

   The plugin shows no information, only the icon. /proc/acpi/battery/
contains information in mA-hours, but that doesn't easily tell me what
percent of charge remains, nor the amount of time in hours:minutes.

Thanks,

Rich

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