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ZennouRyuu
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 Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject: A bit of help? |
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Well, I decided to move away from KDE as my default WM on my laptop in favor of somthing more lightweight. I chose enlightenment for this and am quite pleased with it as a whole, but have found a few things with which I need a bit of help.
1) I need an application that will keep me up on my ACPI Information. I need to know about how much battery life I have left, the temp of my system etc. Gkrellm is not what I am looking for for two reasons first the battery monitor is based on my estimate of how long my battery typically lasts (not very accurate as I am not sure) and second because it seems to have a memory leak in all recent versions 2.2.x creates hundreds of 'defunc' processes
2) The application that solves the issue mentioned above needs to have some other ACPI related features like performance state changing, and low battery alarms etc.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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adaptr
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:46 pm Post subject: Re: A bit of help? |
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| ZennouRyuu wrote: | | Well, I decided to move away from KDE as my default WM on my laptop in favor of somthing more lightweight. I chose enlightenment for this |
That hardly counts as "lighter", does it ?
| ZennouRyuu wrote: | | 1) I need an application that will keep me up on my ACPI Information. I need to know about how much battery life I have left, the temp of my system etc. Gkrellm is not what I am looking for for two reasons first the battery monitor is based on my estimate of how long my battery typically lasts (not very accurate as I am not sure) and second because it seems to have a memory leak in all recent versions 2.2.x creates hundreds of 'defunc' processes |
Then emerge an older version ?
| ZennouRyuu wrote: | | 2) The application that solves the issue mentioned above needs to have some other ACPI related features like performance state changing, and low battery alarms etc. |
I'd suggest XFCE - then we're talking about fast.
It has panel plugins a la Gnome, for battery status and the like.
Or you can try gnome+gdesklets (if these work by now...)
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ZennouRyuu
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Im sorry I should have clarified, I wanted somthing that looks great, but is lighter than KDE (and yes, let me assure you, enlightenment is alot lighter than KDE. I love KDE but KDE loves RAM) Enlightenment is my old love 
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r0nin
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Have you tried searching here:
http://www.bensinclair.com/dockapp/
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