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jakerules

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Registered: 2011-04-14

Posts: 34

[SOLVED] No battery notification [XFCE4]

I'll be blunt, XFCE4 has no options at all whatsoever for battery monitoring. I've been looking around on google for an hour and I can't find jack. Here's all of the information I can think of to give.

fuse ac battery button fan power_meter starting as modules

syslog-ng netfs dbus hal wicd crond @net-auto-wireless alsa laptop-mode @acpid slim as my daemons

Using slim to get into XFCE4. I wouldn't be surprised if I borked something though, because I was originally going to use LXDE but I just can't seem to get into there via exec startlxde, xinit /usr/bin/startlxde gives a messagebox on the top left and a black + freezes so lmao who knows. Couldn't even manage to change it as the main variable of startx!

I've installed a bunch of different battery monitoring tars and such but nothing seems to be showing up at all. I was hoping for a little widget to show me my batterys status in the notification area or something. : (
Right now I'm just typing apci every once in a while into the terminal whenever I'm curious about my battery.

If it helps any, I have a HP8430.

I really love Arch Linux thus far though! Even I even manage to find a battery monitor soon, I need to figure out how to use this fingerprint scanner soon. Oh boy...

Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for any help!

Last edited by jakerules (2011-04-25 10:36:31)

ploub

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Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 132

Re: [SOLVED] No battery notification [XFCE4]

Do you have xfce4-power-manager installed? In fact may as well install the group xfce4-goodies

jlindgren

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Registered: 2011-02-27

Posts: 260

Re: [SOLVED] No battery notification [XFCE4]

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … ry-plugin/

jakerules

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Registered: 2011-04-14

Posts: 34

Re: [SOLVED] No battery notification [XFCE4]

I'm glad I posted on the newbie corner! I was having some problems getting lxde to run, so I switched to xfce4 as some sort of backup. I completely forgot to install all of the goodies ._,

Working perfectly now, thanks guys.

Last edited by jakerules (2011-04-19 00:00:18)