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== Description ==  
 
== Description ==  
gkrellm-ThinkBat is meant as a replacement for the default battery meter in [[GKrellM]].  
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gkrellm-ThinkBat was meant as a replacement for the default battery meter in [[GKrellM]].  
 
It should look like default, only it optionally shows time remaining/power consumption. It currently supports only  
 
It should look like default, only it optionally shows time remaining/power consumption. It currently supports only  
one battery.  
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one battery. It is superceded by [[gkrellm-HwMonBat]] on newer kernels which provide the /proc/acpi/battery interface.  
  
 
Latest version: 0.2.2 (2006-02-13)
 
Latest version: 0.2.2 (2006-02-13)

Revision as of 11:40, 12 October 2010

Description

gkrellm-ThinkBat was meant as a replacement for the default battery meter in GKrellM. It should look like default, only it optionally shows time remaining/power consumption. It currently supports only one battery. It is superceded by gkrellm-HwMonBat on newer kernels which provide the /proc/acpi/battery interface.

Latest version: 0.2.2 (2006-02-13)

Prerequisites

Installation

Download the tarball.

$ make
$ make install

this installs gkrellm-thinkbat.so to ~/.gkrellm2/plugins. You can copy it manually elsewhere.

Screenshot

Gkrellm-thinkbat.png Gkrellm-thinkbat2.png

Bugs

Please report any bugs or suggestions to User_talk:rasto.

Patches

Thomas Coppi has a patch for supporting a second battery(it will show the status of whichever battery is being charged/discharged instead of only BAT0) here