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Gnome Battery Monitor: Percentage View
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:00 am
by 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.
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:26 pm
by 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?
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:02 pm
by Dead1nside
Fedora 9, sorry I forgot to mention that. The one that is currently on the gnome panel is Power Manager 2.22.1.
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:40 pm
by 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.
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:10 am
by 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.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:09 am
by 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.