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Topic: Battery watch, howto install a battery watch for Laptop

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freeze

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Posted: Jan. 23 2006,23:17

Hello all,
does anyone know how to install a battery watch. I've got a hd-install on my Laptop and it works brilliant.
I was thinking maybe a gkrellm plugin would do the job. But I haven't tried it yet. And I think I have to uninstall the one that comes with dsl first, cause you can't configure it with the F1 button and i can't find other options.
So if anyone has experience that would be really great.

THX a lot

edited SOLUTION:

altered /home/dsl/.xinitrc

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# put X windows programs that you want started here.
# Be sure to add at the end of each command the &

KEYTABLE="$(getknoppixparam.lua KEYTABLE)"
DESKTOP=`cat $HOME/.desktop`

# For German Keyboards
if [ $KEYTABLE == "de" ]; then
xmodmap -e "clear Mod4" -e "add Mod5 = Mode_switch" &
fi

if egrep -qv noicons /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null; then
iconsnap.lua &>/dev/null &
xtdesk &>/dev/null &
fi
#dillo /usr/share/doc/dsl/getting_started.html &>/dev/null &
case $DESKTOP in
fluxbox )
fluxter -w &>/dev/null &
mount.app &>/dev/null &
asmem -withdrawn -bg black -fg white -memory red &>/dev/null &
wmcpuload &>/dev/null &
wmnet -w &>/dev/null &
wmix &>/dev/null &
wmapm & #<============================ thats the one
exec fluxbox 2>/dev/null
;;
jwm )
./.background
sleep 1
exec jwm
;;
* )
exec fluxbox 2>/dev/null
;;
esac

one mor thing I had to do was:

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ln -s /usr/bin/wmapm /opt/wmapm/wmapm

cause it didn't have that link in my box as default.

Thanks to cbagger01

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cbagger01

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Posted: Jan. 24 2006,17:28

Visit the Window Manager section of the MyDSL Repository.

There are 2 battery monitoring programs, depending on the type of power management that is used by your laptop.

One is wmacpi the other is wmapm

freeze

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Posted: Jan. 25 2006,09:40

Thank you very much.

Just one more thing how can I make sure wich one is my PowerMangement?
I've got a Bios where I can only configure a little and I can't choose to shut off ACPI for example.
And is it important to know which one or can I just install both and see wich one reacts?

Thanks for your help...

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cbagger01

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Posted: Jan. 25 2006,18:23

Try both.

See which one works

freeze

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Posted: Jan. 27 2006,07:28

APM works totally great.
Thank you very much cbagger01.
To make this Post complete allow me to ask one more thing:
How do I make the "Plugin", if thats what I can call it, stay in the gkrellm app? So it comes up at boot in a "dsl-hdinstall".

Could be that this should be another Post or even has been answered somewhere else allready, but it seems a lot of people are looking at this Post so, bla bla bla...
Thank you for your help

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