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casperh

Member

From: Aarhus, Denmark

Registered: 2009-02-13

Posts: 48

Estimation of battery life

Hey

gnome-power-manager doesn't show estimated time in hours:minuts, only in percentage, when it's discharging. When I used KDE the power manager showed hours:minutes fine.

I know gnome-power-manager works on this laptop since it worked with Ubuntu.

Anyone have a fix or is it possible to use KDE's power manager in GNOME?

Regards
Casper.

jelly

Administrator

From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 714

Re: Estimation of battery life

KDE's power manager wont look nice in the gnome bar. Look for another gnome battery life applet or check the preferences of the applet.

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loudtiger

Member

Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 68

Re: Estimation of battery life

i just use yacpi, it's a console app

lucke

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Estimation of battery life

Just "acpi" in the console gives you the info. For some reason, KDE's battery plasmoid doesn't show me the estimated time either.

uwinkelvos

Member

Registered: 2009-06-07

Posts: 129

Re: Estimation of battery life

ther should be a setting to change from percentage to estimated time:
gconf-editor -> apps -> gnome-power-manager