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To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:50:30 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: gnomeapplets battery monitor "broken" 
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> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:37:30 -0400
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> On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 15:23 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > The latest gnomeapplets broke the Battery Charge Monitor a bit.
> > 
> > While the charge information is correct, the AC line status is
> > broken. It is set correctly when the applet is started, but never
> > changes when the power supply is connected or disconnected.
> > 
> > This is on a -current system and all gnome ports are current as of this
> > morning. IBM T30 laptop.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> I'm working on a devd patch that should alleviate these problems once
> and for all.

Thanks, Joe. Doing it with devd looks like a definite improvement, at
least in -current. I can say that the last update to the applet has
fixed the problem, though, and I am again seeing the correct
acline/batter status.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634