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Battery Monitor
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:35 am
by Harryc
I found a battery monitor for KDE mentioned on this forum a few weeks ago and now I want to use it, but I can't locate it. It gives data similar to Thinkpad power management, battery health. Anyone have a clue what I am talking about?
Edit: disregard - kthinkbat is the one I was thinking of.
Re: Battery Monitor
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:56 pm
by syedj
I use GKrellM system monitor application and it also gives battery info. However, I am not sure how accurate the remaining charge time it shows is.
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:25 pm
by Harryc
syedj, thanks for the information. I also use gkrellm, but was looking for a battery utility closer to 'battery health'. See it in action in the pic linked below.
http://mysite.verizon.net/hjc56/snapshots/snapshot1.jpg
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:36 pm
by syedj
Thanks Harry. I will also give this utility a try.
P.S. I love the "Current consumption 0 W" though
I wish my laptops could do that too
It could be that its running on the AC power and there is actually no current drawn from the battery and hence the 0W consumption.
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:30 pm
by Harryc
That is true, it's currently plugged in ...
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:21 pm
by GomJabbar
I like your desktop Harryc. Makes me want to try openSUSE 11 RC1. Is that the version you are running?
A few months ago I briefly tried openSUSE 10.3 on a ThinkPad 600E, but gave up when I had problems getting a Cardbus Netgear WG511 v2 WiFi card (Marvel chipset) to work.
EDIT: I just read on distrowatch that openSUSE 11 Gold Master will be released in 2 days - on June 19th!
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:25 pm
by ajkula66
Harry and Syed,
I'm running Mint 4.0 (Daryna) on my X60T and have something very close to "battery health" info when I click on the battery icon, and choose "Laptop Battery" then click on that...being that both of you guys are more of Linux gurus than I'll ever be, if you can walk me through isolating it, I can probably do it and then send it to you...
Let me know.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:11 am
by tylerwylie
I'm using OpenSUSE 11 RC1(pretty much upgraded it to 11), and it is fantastic. After using Ubuntu 8.04, and Fedora 9, I really don't see a reason anyone should use those two when OpenSUSE 11 is an option.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:48 am
by Harryc
GomJabbar, that desktop is OpenSUSE 10.3, 11.0 looks better IMHO. It will be released as a public final tomorrow.
http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap
George, it should just be a matter of hitting the print screen button on the keyboard once the screen looks like you want it to. gnome-screenshot should pop up and ask you to save the image somewhere...
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:11 am
by GomJabbar
I tried installing KThinkBat from the following site, however the applet refuses to load. I am using Mandriva 2008.1 (final - not cooker).
http://www.aaue.dk/~janoc/index.php?n=Personal.Linux
Before installing KThinkBat I installed
tp_smapi-kernel for my kernel and
dkms-tp_smapi. Perhaps I should not have installed both?
After the fact I installed kernel-source for my kernel thinking that this could be the problem, but that made no difference.
I also have KPowersave installed. Do you have KPowersave installed? Do you think KThinkBat would conflict with KPowersave?
