EeePC 701 with LXDE 2010 on SD: Battery monitor on Taskbar. (SHELVED)

[BJF]

Back after a short absence;

My quest for a viable OS for my Eeep has brought me back to PCLOS LXDE. We're settling in well! A very, very polished product. It just works. Well done guys.
I have LXDE 2009 on a SD, and with EeeControl activated the battery indicator looks "battery"-like, and gives an accurate indication of proceedings.
However, my new LDXE 2010 on SD has the slim vertical bar indicator which is, well, not as nice. But the bit that grates is that each boot-up, I have to edit the properties of the thing to remove the Low Battery nag screen that pops up every 20 seconds. The alteration doesn't persist. LXDE 2009 does this.
Please could someone direct me on how to edit the nag out (by setting the voltage threshhold higher??), and help locate the Eeep Battery .png for my Taskbar?

Thanks.

 

[BJF]

Hmmm. OK, does this help? The same-named battery app's are installed in both 2009 and 2010 LXDE's. And the Low Battery warning in 2010 looks identical to Unity's one and that behaves in an identical fashion under battery power. Doesn't anyone have a suggestion where to look? Or a suggested favourite alternative monitor even.

Thanks.

[menotu]

Sorry BJF - I don't use lxde so can't help, but I'm sure someone will come along and point you where to go to solve it.

[scoundrel]

have you tried doing it as root??

[Village Idiot]

Stabbing in the dark here, but is there any chance that you might have a sick battery?

If one cell in the battery is down, the computer thinks the battery is low (which it is) but the remaining good cells carry that lower voltage longer than the program anticipates. It's just a thought.

I use a remastered kde3 (minime 2009) on a SD with my 1000h with klaptop and eeepccontrol rpms and it's always worked fine, so I don't know much about how the new releases work on it. Yet... 

 

[BJF]

Thank you all for your input.

Chuck: Battery (and machine) are a year old which doesn't prove anything, but I get quite acceptable battery life with normal activity. I will admit to distro-hopping in search of the perfect OS for the thing only to support my assertion that LXDE 2010 and Unity (just for a peek at it) have the only misbehaving monitors. I reckon 2010 is a keeper if I can only find where the low voltage trigger lives and maybe increment it up a tad. 701's operate at only 9.5v which might be quite unexpected these days.

Scoundrel: I don't now how to answer this on a family forum! 

[BJF]

All things considered, I have decided to forsake LXDE 2010 and return to 2009. That behaves itself nicely on the Eeep, and I see no further need for 2010, which doesn't. Thanks anyway.

[ckotting]

I know this is an old topic, but in case someone else comes across this problem, this is a known bug in the ASUS EEE BIOS.  It reports battery status in Amp/hours in a field that expects a percentage, so the battery monitor freaks out when it only see a "4" or "5" on a fully charged battery.

[BJF]

Found a way to make it all go...

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,83320.0.html

...but thanks, ckotting.