xfce4 battery plugin gives wrong infomation with linux kernel 2.6.24

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 23:38:25 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

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> Alternatively, the battery plugin should just use HAL, and then it can 
> work on the BSDs as well without OS-specific code.

The wmbattery maintainer just gave up messing around with changing
kernel interfaces and now uses HAL to get the battery status. Maybe
some inspiration can be taken from there.

Regards,
Tino