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vbtricks

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-03-20

Posts: 37

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Conky displaying wrong battery time

Salut,

I managed to display the battery capacity remaining in Conky by including the battery_percent variable. The also included battery_time variable does display a time, but it's about 1/6 of the really remaining time. Powertop and manually calculating the values from /proc/battery/BAT0/status and /proc/battery/BAT0/info result in about 2h left, Conky displays about 20minutes.

Any tweak I missed, or is this a bug of Conky?

Thanks in advance,

Stefan

Gruntz

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From: Haskovo, Bulgaria

Registered: 2007-08-31

Posts: 291

Re: Conky displaying wrong battery time

Conky`s battery_time variable is playing tricks with me too...

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Registered: 2006-11-26

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Re: Conky displaying wrong battery time

The battery polling function of conky accepts arguments, have you tried that?

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b4d

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2008-07-06

Posts: 62

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Re: Conky displaying wrong battery time

Same thing here, battery_percent is ok, but battery_time is instead 3h only about 11min.

Blice

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Registered: 2008-08-05

Posts: 29

Re: Conky displaying wrong battery time

Yeah I'm having the same problem. With mine it changes though... If I close out of conky and re-open it, it seems like the time *increases*? I dunno.

Hessiess

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Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 75

Re: Conky displaying wrong battery time

same problem here.

unplug AC, conky always displays 'full'?
plug it in again, charging always starts at 0%

manually calculating the values from /proc/battery/BAT0/status and /proc/battery/BAT0/info result in about 2h left, Conky displays about 20minutes.

I dont seem to have a /proc/battery/BAT0/ dir