Laptop battery monitor required

[satuser083]

Am not too keen on the battery-monitor panel-plugin; it doesn't give any indication of the actual battery-state and seems to me to be pretty inaccurate. Is there another, more finely tuned one available (haven't managed to identify one in the repos)? Thanks.

[coffeetime]

LXDE, OpenBox, e17, Zen....?

[satuser083]

LXDE, OpenBox, e17, Zen....?

Whoops    lxde.

[scoundrel]

LXDE, OpenBox, e17, Zen....?

Whoops    lxde.

are you talking about the green bar ..when you say "battery-monitor panel-plugin" ??

[satuser083]

Whoops    lxde.

are you talking about the green bar ..when you say "battery-monitor panel-plugin" ??

Yes, I am

[scoundrel]

Whoops    lxde.

are you talking about the green bar ..when you say "battery-monitor panel-plugin" ??

Yes, I am

thought it pretty good myself... have you done a search in synaptic for "battery" ?? take a look and see if there is something there you might use

[satuser083]

Thanks, scoundrel, I've already done as you suggest. I'm think the monitor's pretty useless because it (or, mine, at least) tells me permanently that the battery is 100% full and doesn't give me any warning that the battery's about to go awol. 

[Nameless]

Am not too keen on the battery-monitor panel-plugin; it doesn't give any indication of the actual battery-state and seems to me to be pretty inaccurate. Is there another, more finely tuned one available (haven't managed to identify one in the repos)? Thanks.

Have you tried turning on your ACPI settings (then rebooting)?? I had the same issue until i realized that my ACPI setting was check off, haha.

[Howard]

I'm using wmlaptop from the control line.  At present I get an error message but it works, and if you do it as user it vanishes along with the terminal when you exit.  It's not well designed as a fixture as it hogs 64 pixels on the LHS of the screen and won't let any other windows into that strip, so don't try it as root - it won't go away.  Not as good as klaptop in KDE 3.5 though.