Re: battery management

From: Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reply-To: tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: battery management
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:09:13 +0100

azeem ahmad wrote:

> i got a laptop and made a windows XP and FC4 dual boot, the windows XP

> manages the battery power and shows battery status. but in FC4 i am unable

> to find any such program which manages the battery power and shows the
> battery status. even i have searched and googled for it but couldnt find
> one.
>
> can anyone of u tell me about any good software/package for this

If you are running KDE, klaptop (in kdeutils-extras) provides
a little battery applet in the panel.
I'm sure Gnome has a similar program.

You can probably see the battery details
in /proc/acpi/battery/...

Regards
Azeem

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