Re: KDE and laptop battery monitor
On Thursday 07 May 2009 12:30:25 LEVAI Daniel wrote: Hi! I'm trying to display an applet which will show me my battery status in KDE3. I noticed that in Ksystemguard the acpi tree is totally missing, so I tried KControl/Power Control/Laptop Battery: It says on the configuration page, that Other error opening APM control device /dev/apmctl. I thought that apmd(8) is using that device, so I killed it, but still I couldn't make the Battery Monitor start. Is it possible to make KDE's battery monitor work, or is there any other monitor application that will integrate into a standard freedesktop system-tray? Make sure that your user have write access to mentioned /dev/apmctl. By default, only root can write to it. It's some sort of unsecure advice, though. :( But on the personal notebook, IMHO, it's acceptable. -- Best wishes, Vadim Zhukov A: Because it messes up the way people read text. Q: Why is a top-posting such a bad thing?
Re: KDE and laptop battery monitor
On Thursday 07 May 2009 10.47.39 Vadim Zhukov wrote: On Thursday 07 May 2009 12:30:25 LEVAI Daniel wrote: Hi! I'm trying to display an applet which will show me my battery status in KDE3. I noticed that in Ksystemguard the acpi tree is totally missing, so I tried KControl/Power Control/Laptop Battery: It says on the configuration page, that Other error opening APM control device /dev/apmctl. I thought that apmd(8) is using that device, so I killed it, but still I couldn't make the Battery Monitor start. Is it possible to make KDE's battery monitor work, or is there any other monitor application that will integrate into a standard freedesktop system-tray? Make sure that your user have write access to mentioned /dev/apmctl. By default, only root can write to it. Oh, thanks. I didn't think that I needed write access too. It's some sort of unsecure advice, though. :( But on the personal notebook, IMHO, it's acceptable. Daniel -- LIVAI Daniel PGP key ID = 0x4AC0A4B1 Key fingerprint = D037 03B9 C12D D338 4412 2D83 1373 917A 4AC0 A4B1
