A LXDE battery monitor that WORKS.

[BJF]

With acknowledgment to Parnote for this:

The November magazine contains reference to Gnome Power Manager as a replacement for the buggy onboard battery monitor in the LXDE: Hints and Tips section, and references the September issue for ways to get it into your startup list. A little later in the November H & T's there is a little nugget on an alternate way to get applications to autostart. By combining the two ideas....

Get gnome power manager from the repo's.

Open /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart as root, and add the line:

@gnome-power-manager (Make sure the file has a blank line as its last entry, and save.)

Close out and reboot. There should now be an accurate working battery monitor in your LXDE taskbar, with the added benefits of settings for stand-by and hibernation from Preferences.

Thank you Parnote.

[Village Idiot]

Thank you. I will keep this one in mind for my next remaster.

 

[bcat23]

Thanks for posting this. I just tried it and it worked like a charm. 

[kizito]

Excellent 

Thanks to you I now have a battery monitor that looks like it was meant and that also works.

[collins601]

Get gnome power manager from the repo's.

Open /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart as root, and add the line:

@gnome-power-manager (Make sure the file has a blank line as its last entry, and save.)

Close out and reboot. There should now be an accurate working battery monitor in your LXDE taskbar, with the added benefits of settings for stand-by and hibernation from Preferences.

FYI,

Do make the permanent changes as above, but there is no need to reboot. Just run 'gnome-power-manager &' in a root terminal.

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Collins

[megalodonnl]

Hi,

I know it's an old topic, but as new user, I followed the rule to first do a search before asking. So I followed the advice in this topic but in the terminal I get this:



Perhaps this is the default Power Manager and therefore the gnome power manager can't run? Or is it the gnome that is already running?

BTW: nice little utility, 'screenie'

[daniel]

Is gnome-power-manager running for you, or not?

I don't need to run this in a root terminal...
Click on startmenu > run dialog and type gnome-power-manager, it will list. Then activate automatic start by systemstart, that should work...

Good luck, and welcome in our forums 

[kizito]

Yes, gnome-power-manager was already running when you issued that command in the terminal. Is there a little battery-and-plug icon on the panel?

[megalodonnl]

Thanks guys.

I had no icon in the panel which is why I wasn't sure whether gnome power manager was running or that the default lxde power manager was still used.

With 'start - run' I could access the gnome power manager preferences and choose to have the icon displayed.

I feel dumb for having not tried the 'run' option first, but I was just so busy reading documents and topics... and they didn't mention the simple 'start - run'

I can do this with Nautilus too, that I just installed, but the only thing I don't know yet is how to pin that to the menu... either taskbar or Start Menu @ File Managers... I guess I have some further reading to do

[Neal ManBear]

megalodonnl,
As root, open /usr/share/applications/ (use File Manager Superuser in menu) > look for Nautilus' .desktop file(s) and open with leafpad. Look for the line OnlyShowIn=GNOME; and change it to OnlyShowIn=GNOME;LXDE; - save and exit. Nautilus will now show in your menu.     

[megalodonnl]

megalodonnl,
As root, open /usr/share/applications/ (use File Manager Superuser in menu) > look for Nautilus' .desktop file(s) and open with leafpad. Look for the line OnlyShowIn=GNOME; and change it to OnlyShowIn=GNOME;LXDE; - save and exit. Nautilus will now show in your menu.     

Hi Neal, thanks

I already found that but now it doesn't display Nautilus icon. I'll open another topic for that so people who search for that information have an easier time finding it when doing a search.

[Neal ManBear]

Nautilus uses the system-file-manager icon here. If you want to use something else, you need to edit the Icon= line in its .desktop file.