battery applet accidently deleted - how do I get it back?

[naomi]

Hi, I accidently deleted my battery applet when I tried to get rid of the klipper applet.
I tried to find any laptop / battery configuration site in the control center but couldn't find any. Where is the battery applet hiding? I can't just simply add it via "add applet to panel" and I can't find anything battery related anywhere else either.
I'm absolutely desperate Please help!

Thanks in advance,
Naomi

[naomi]

Re: battery applet accidently deleted - how do I get it back?


I installed the laptop module for the kde control center, so I now have the power control option menu available in the control center menu. the box "show battery monitor" is ticked, but I can't see the system tray icon in my bottom panel. furthermore the icons shown look kind of different from the battery icon I used to have.

Please help! I'm so annoyed I deleted it

[naomi]

Re: battery applet accidently deleted - how do I get it back?


Oh, great, since I installed the laptop thing for the kde control center, the automatic cpu scaling does not work anymore, i.e. both cpu are constantly running at 1.7GHz, whereas earlier they were running at 1 GHz when the system was idle. I hate all of this... I'm tempted to destroy this whole kubuntu and install a fresh ubuntu, maybe with kde in addition.

Ok, I'm quite frustrated now, because I wasted the whole evening... Please help! Otherwise I probably get rid of this install (Kubuntu Edgy btw)

Naomi

[XstatyK]

Re: battery applet accidently deleted - how do I get it back?

I don't have a laptop so I can't be of much help to you other than to show you what I've found.
I typed (in a terminal konsole)
apt-cache search battery
And it came up with some different apps to install for power management and one in particular caught my eye
It is called "klaptopdaemon"
As I said I don't know if its much help and I could be just stating the obvious.

Good luck

[cantab]

Re: battery applet accidently deleted - how do I get it back?

Alt_F2, enter kcontrol, run it.

Go Power Control > Laptop Battery, ensure 'Show Battery Monitor' is checked, then click the button that says 'Start Battery Monitor'

That ought to work. If not, run 'ps aux | grep acpid' and look for a line like

root 6642 0.0 0.2 2156 540 ? SNs 13:22 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket

The numbers will differ but the text should be the same. If that's not there then something is wrong.