Using Panel Plugins

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Rich Shepard schreef:
>    When I moved from the 2.4 to the 2.6 kernel series the battstat command
> line application stopped working on my Sony Vaio with acpi. (Of course, the
> old apm utility still works on the older portables that used that for battery
> status.)
> 
>    After a little rummaging around on the Xfce web site I discovered the
> battery plugin and the system status plugin. Downloaded both tarballs and
> built the system status one; used checkinstall to make a Slackware package
> and installed that on my server. Shutdown X and restarted it. Looked in the
> settings area for it, but couldn't find it.
> 
>    How do I invoke these applets? If there's something in the manual about
> this then I missed seeing it when I looked.
> 

It depends a bit on the version of Xfce you are using, but basically 
they will show up in the Add Items list of the panel that you can access 
from the right-click mouse menu. The plugins probably have to be 
installed in the same prefix as the panel.

>    And, will the battery status work with the newer kernels and portable
> status reporting?
> 

No idea, sorry.

	Jasper