...and then James Gregory said: > The GNOME battery monitor whatsit isn't working for me at the moment (I > assume it's linking against a library not built against this kernel or > something), but I wrote a simple little perl script that is giving me > battery information which I am willing to believe is somewhat accurate.
If you're talking about the monitor in GNOME 1.4, then it isn't working because it doesn't know how to read battery status out of /proc/acpi. I understand the one in GNOME 2 does work, but I never got the chance to try it. There's a windowmanager dockapp to display acpi, a KDE panel app, and a gkrellm plugin to display ACPI information. Have a poke around http://acpi.sourceforge.net/support/ There's also a nice little command-line app called acpi - http://grahame.azale.net/acpi.shtml And don't forget to install acpid, which intercepts acpi events and lets you hook scripts in to do stuff when, for eg, you open or close your laptop. -- Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
