Kubuntu 11.04 (64-bit) on my Pavilion g7-1070us laptop, Conky version 1.8.0-1ubuntu1.
The entry for displaying the battery charge state as a bar graph requires an option not identified in the Conky documentation. I discovered it by accident while Google searching.
This is how it was originally written (and didn't display the bar-graph filled in):
${battery_bar 11,0}
This produces the bar graph, but without any color filling which represents the percentage of the charge state of the battery (fully filled in, 100% battery charge).
The solution is to add the battery designator, which the Conky documentation for battery doesn't identify. So, changing the entry to:
${battery_bar BAT0 11,0}
displays the battery_bar correctly. I have just one battery, so BAT0 is correct. If I had two batterys, then BAT0 is the first, and BAT1 would be the second.
This is the complete line as used in my /etc/conky/conky.conf:
${color}Status: ${color LightBlue}$battery ${battery_bar BAT0 11,0}
The entry for displaying the battery charge state as a bar graph requires an option not identified in the Conky documentation. I discovered it by accident while Google searching.
This is how it was originally written (and didn't display the bar-graph filled in):
${battery_bar 11,0}
This produces the bar graph, but without any color filling which represents the percentage of the charge state of the battery (fully filled in, 100% battery charge).
The solution is to add the battery designator, which the Conky documentation for battery doesn't identify. So, changing the entry to:
${battery_bar BAT0 11,0}
displays the battery_bar correctly. I have just one battery, so BAT0 is correct. If I had two batterys, then BAT0 is the first, and BAT1 would be the second.
This is the complete line as used in my /etc/conky/conky.conf:
${color}Status: ${color LightBlue}$battery ${battery_bar BAT0 11,0}