Arch Linux

fflarex

Member

Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 466

how to get a battery monitor in kde?

For some reason I haven't been able to find this in any of the wiki articles or forum threads that deal with laptops. Feel free to just link to another page if I somehow missed it. I want that little system tray icon that tells me how much battery power I have left... (also, I'm not sure where to get other related functionality such as automatically shutting down when battery power is critical, etc.) I'm using kdemod.

Thanks in advance.

hacosta

Member

From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: how to get a battery monitor in kde?

im pretty sure thre's a klaptopdaemon package in kde-mod's repositories

dhave

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,112

Re: how to get a battery monitor in kde?

I really like kthinkbat, which is in AUR.

---

Donate to Arch!

Tired? There's a nap for that. --anonymous

dante4d

Member

From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-04-14

Posts: 176

Re: how to get a battery monitor in kde?

You need to setup acpi stuff. I'm currently playing with this, so if you want to discuss something...

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ACPI_modules
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpi_hotkeys

im pretty sure thre's a klaptopdaemon package in kde-mod's repositories

Yes, there is. I'm using it.