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From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
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Subject: Re: Monitoring battery status in X via acpi
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>Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 07:46:37 +0200 (MEST)
>From: "Markus D." <sm4tnp8@gmx.net>
>To: mobile@freebsd.org
>Subject: Monitoring battery status in X via acpi

>After upgrading to 5.1 the gnome battstat applet complains about not enabled
>APM. Obviously it does not support ACPI. Does anyone know a battery monitor
>for use within Gnome or X that does support ACPI in 5.x?

>Looking at the other applets referenced on gnome.org and at xbatt, xbattbar
>it seems they all support only APM for now.

I use xbattbar successfully on my laptop, on which I track each of
-STABLE and -CURRENT daily.

Peace,
david
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David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
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