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==Description==
 
==Description==
  
[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.  
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[http://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.  
  
 
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
 
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
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==Download==
 
==Download==
  
* [https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/KThinkBat#Download Download from the KThinkBat Site]
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* [http://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/KThinkBat#Download Download from the KThinkBat Site]
  
  

Revision as of 22:15, 9 September 2007

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: http://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/KThinkBat

Author: Tobias Roeser

Latest Version (2007-07-29): 0.2.8

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
ln -vfs ../../../opt/kthinkbat/lib/* ./
cd /usr/share/apps/kicker/applets
ln -vfs ../../../../../opt/kthinkbat/share/apps/kicker/applets/kthinkbat.desktop ./

(The above paths are for Fedora 4 and 5, and may need to be adjusted for other distributions.)

If you already have the applet running, run $ killall kicker; kicker to restart it.

Gentoo

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

openSuSE

On Guru's RPM Site there are RPMs for KThinkBat 0.2.3 and 0.2.2 compiled for all SuSE versions back to 9.3.

Debian

deb http://debian.cp69.de/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.cp69.de/ unstable main non-free contrib
     
deb http://debian.cp69.de/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.cp69.de/ testing main non-free contrib

To get the repository key, do a:

wget http://debian.cp69.de/repo.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add - 

Download


See Also