The sysutils/desktopbsd-tools port contains a KDE system tray battery monitor that is ACPI compliant. Admittedly, it's not very powerful, lacking advanced power controls like screen dimming and suspend timers, but it does show the essentials (AC line connection and battery percentage), which still can be quite useful.
- Daniel W. Steinbrook On 4/15/07, Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday, 15. April 2007, Andrew wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like KDE (3.5.4 on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE) to be ACPI-aware, like > > it used to be when I was running Kubuntu. For example: > > > > - when logging out, KDE would give me the choice to "suspend" the laptop; > > - I had a small battery monitor/CPU freq monitor icon in the kicker; > > - KSysGuard used to have ACPI sensors. > > > > As I can see all the relevant ACPI values from the console (with > > sysctl), is there something I should install on KDE to get this > > functionality back? > > No, as far as I know kdm and ksysguard currently lack code to use FreeBSD's > ACPI support. I cc'd Markus Brueffer this reply, who probably knows best > about the current status of KDE/FreeBSD wrt ACPI. > > -- > ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org > \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org > > _______________________________________________ > kde-freebsd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd > > > _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
