Battery meter

[Joe_Bloe]

How do I get a battery meter for my laptop? klaptopdaemon is installed, where do I go now?

Thanks

[mae]

Re: Battery meter

If you run KDE 4, you can add a battery "widget".

Right Click on Desktop
Select Add Widget
Scroll down to Battery Monitor
Drag to desktop and configure.

[Joe_Bloe]

Re: Battery meter

Yes, I'm running KDE4, hence the post to the KDE4 forum. Thanks, that's what I'm looking for. Can this widget run in the taskbar, or does it have to run on the desktop?

[mae]

Re: Battery meter

I upgraded to KDE4.1 today and guess what? the battery widget is in the task bar, seems to do it "by default."

I am not sure if you can add it manually in KDE4 to task bar, will do some investigation and let you know if I come across a way to do.

[kubicle]

Re: Battery meter

Can this widget run in the taskbar, or does it have to run on the desktop?

You can place plasmoids on the panel by right-clicking on the panel (instead of the desktop) and choosing 'add widgets'

EDIT: In older versions of KDE 4 (4.0), you can drag widgets from the add widget dialog into the panel.

[Joe_Bloe]

Re: Battery meter

Thanks everyone for the help.

[Jook_roberts]

Re: Battery meter

I was also having this issue. Glad to see it solved already.


Thanks

Dale