On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:48:00AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 06:42, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > There are of course other non-GUI ways to get info about battery > > load when using a laptop. > > > > But is is nice to have a icon and or toolbar graphical display. > > So I tried to compile bbapm-0.0.1 (on RH 7.2 using gcc-2.96-98). > > > > Make gives the following "errors": > I ran into similar problems a while back. It appears that the bbapm > package is not maintained and doesn't compile well (if at all) with the > current release of Blackbox. GKrellM was suggested as an alternative to > bbapm, and I've been quite happy with it. You might want to give it a > try. You can find RPMs of this and many other useful applications at > http://freshrpms.net.
Thanks for the reply. I know gkrellm and have tried it out a couple of times. But I find it exceedingly ugly on the 'desktop' and I have no use for the default functionality. One of the reasons I started with blackbox is that it is also "minimal" in appearance. I love an empty 'desktop' with just a slim tiny toolbar and nothing else. A tiny bbapm icon with the same appearance/style as the toolbaar would have been just acceptable. Hint, hint for the maintainers/developers of blackbox :-). An (optional) tiny elegant battery load presenter on the toolbar would be very welcome for laptop users. Alexander
