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[https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/KThinkBat KThinkBat] is a laptop battery monitor for the KDE-Kicker. It is inspired by the Windows Application "Battery Maximizer" which is included with ThinkPads.  
 
[https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/KThinkBat KThinkBat] is a laptop battery monitor for the KDE-Kicker. It is inspired by the Windows Application "Battery Maximizer" which is included with ThinkPads.  
  
On ThinkPads it uses the SMAPI BIOS through the [[tp_smapi]] driver. It shows you the current power consumption of the laptop and brings support for a second battery. It is fully customizable including sizes, color, fonts and battery number
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It can use the SMAPI BIOS (through the [[tp_smapi]] driver) or [[How to make ACPI work|ACPI]] to collect the data. It shows you the current power consumption of the laptop and brings support for a second battery. It is fully customizable including sizes, color, fonts and battery number
  
 
Homepage: https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/KThinkBat
 
Homepage: https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/KThinkBat

Revision as of 04:36, 12 February 2006

Description

KThinkBat is a laptop battery monitor for the KDE-Kicker. It is inspired by the Windows Application "Battery Maximizer" which is included with ThinkPads.

It can use the SMAPI BIOS (through the tp_smapi driver) or ACPI to collect the data. It shows you the current power consumption of the laptop and brings support for a second battery. It is fully customizable including sizes, color, fonts and battery number

Homepage: https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/KThinkBat

Author: Tobias Roeser

Latest Version (2006/02/04): 0.1.5

Screenshot

KThinkBat.png

Offline Mode: you see how much charge is left and the current discharging rate.

KThinkBat dual.png

Online Mode: you see how much charge is left and the current charging rate. This screenshot is taken with the disabled "summarize batteries" option.

Installation

KThinkBat uses the autotools. For a standard installation use

./configure
make
su -c 'make install'

Alternatively, to minimize filesystem clutter you can install KThinkBat into /opt/kthinkbat and add just a few symlinks under /usr:

mkdir -p /opt/kthinkbat
./configure --prefix=/opt/kthinkbat
make
make install
cd /usr/lib/kde3
ls -vs ../../../opt/kthinkbat/lib/* ./
cd /usr/share/apps/kicker/applets
ln -vs ../../../../../opt/kthinkbat/share/apps/kicker/applets/kthinkbat.desktop ./

(The above paths are for Fedora 4, and may need to be adjusted for other distributions.)

Gentoo

You can use the the ebuild from this portage overlay, category/package: app-laptop/kthinkbat.

Download


See Also