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StEtOc|nA · Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 3

Hi guys, just met puppy and lovely world without my old computer crashing every 10 seconds because of antivirus or such things. Great system.

Anyway, I am sure there were like gazzilion topics around here because of this, but I have problem with battery monitor. I mean, there is battery monitor (you can see it on my picture). The problem is that it only indicates battery state when pressed and I don't see if my battery is low (except checking the status).

Now this should be no big deal, but I had my cable drop out 2 times today and it was really frustrating when computer shuts off by itself.

I managed to install dingo-battery and asapm but it only worked on JWM. On XFCE it just doesn't work (I can only start manually asapm and cant put it on tray). I read people say that XFCE has battery indicator installed in package but I am not able to find it. I read on XFCE there is xfce4-battery-plugin, but I have no clue how to install it. Any help with this or some other program on XFCE. I would hate to go back on JWM cause this is more convinient for me.

Thanks in advance.

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro

For which puppy version? If for lucid I guess you could try installing this deb:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/xfce4-battery-plugin/download

Where are you from btw? Smile

StEtOc|nA · Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 3

john3voltas · Joined: 23 May 2011 Posts: 98

Aha! So I'm not the only one with this problem.
Only, I'm using Openbox that comes with Lucid 525.
But the battery icon behaviour is the same.
Which means there's a small glitch in the Matrix and I just hope someone could try to investigate it.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers