Gnome Battery Monitor: Percentage View

[Dead1nside]

In Fedora I used to be able to make gnome power manager show a horizontal battery with the percentage left, or the time left. I can't seem to find either a panel applet that does this job, or an option to configure gnome power manager to do this anymore.

I want to achieve something similar to the ThinkVantage tools. Any ideas? Or am I thinking of something different.

[aaa]

It is a separate applet. There's the powermanager icon, and there's another Gnome applet separate from it.

Maybe it's not installed? Which distro is this?

[Dead1nside]

Fedora 9, sorry I forgot to mention that. The one that is currently on the gnome panel is Power Manager 2.22.1.

[aaa]

In Ubuntu 7.10, I can add an applet called "Battery Charge Monitor" (battstat-applet). It has an "extended" option that does what you want.

Unfortunately:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-List ... 02298.html

It seems to have been removed from FC9. Maybe more googling will help. You might have to manually copy (and maybe compile) it from someplace.

[Dead1nside]

Thanks for your detective skills, it certainly sounds like what I used to use. I'll try find an rpm for it, if not, you're right, I'll have to compile it myself.

[Dead1nside]

It looks as if battery charge monitor is deprecated, especially so under Fedora. I've filed a bug against g-p-m to try and introduce this text overlay functionality. Maybe we'll see something of it. Thanks for tracking down the applet.