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Date:      21 Apr 2003 12:53:08 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        stacey@vickiandstacey.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Gnome Mailing List <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: battstat-applet-2.0.4 vs Gnome-2
Message-ID:  <1050943988.393.26.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <1050943805.695.255.camel@localhost>
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On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 12:50, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> Hello,
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> On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 17:41, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 12:39, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >=20
> > >=20
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> <snipped>
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> > > > >=20
> > > > > Thanks for the reply.
> > > > >=20
> > > > > The reason for my not being sure about this, is the fact that in =
the
> > > > > Makefile there reads:
> > > > >=20
> > > > > USE_GNOME=3D      gnomehack gnomeprefix libpanel
> > > > >=20
> > > > > As against what I recall reading in FreeBSD-Gnome advisories abou=
t that
> > > > > line reading "USE_GNOMENG", or something like that - as an indica=
tion as
> > > > > to the port's Gnome-2 status..,
> > > > >=20
> > > > > Has this flag-setting changed, then?
> > > >=20
> > > > This port will not work in GNOME 2.  Anders is correct, in that the=
 new
> > > > battery applet in gnomeapplets2 should be comparable.
> > >=20
> > > Is this:
> > >=20
> > > Applications > System Tools > System Monitor
> > >=20
> > > that you're referring to?
> >=20
> > No.  Add to Panel > Utility > Battery Charge Monitor
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> Thanks for that, Joe. I got this error box:
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> Can't open the APM device
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> Make sure you have read permission to the APM device.
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> Can only root do this, or something? Sorry for the trivial questions..,
> this is the first *nix-laptop for me..,=20

Do you have apm in the kernel, and apmd and apm enabled in rc.conf?  If
so, just chmod the /devl/apm* devices so you can access them.

Joe

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> Regards,
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> Stacey
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> >=20
> > Joe
> >=20
> > >=20
> > > Regards,
> > >=20
> > > Stacey
> > >=20
> > > >=20
> > > > Joe
> > > >=20
> > > > >=20
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >=20
> > > > > Stacey
> > > > >=20
> > > > > >=20
> > > > > > Please spank me if I'm wrong.
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PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc



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