On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 11:38 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Iain Buchanan schreef:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just rebuilt my system, and emerged gnome-light this time instead
> > of gnome.
> >
> > I noticed battstat isn't part of gnome-applets, but when I try and
> > emerge it, I get all these wierd deps.
> >
> > Is there another battstat that uses acpi?
>
> >From this output, it looks like the battstat applet you're trying to
> install is for GNOME 1.x, not GNOME 2.x, which is what you're most
> likely running.
that's what I suspected...
> And IIrc (I don't have a laptop, so I generally ignore the battery
> applet), the applet you're looking for is included with the
> gnome-applets package, and will use acpid support if that USE flag is
> enabled:
That was precisely it! I didn't have the acpi use flag, so the battery
applet wasn't included in gnome-applets...
I'm trying to keep things to a minimum, so I mostly have -xxx use flags
in make.conf, and specify required use flags in package.use. So far the
battery applet is the only one that had me going :)
thanks,
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Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au>
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The ancient Italian art of pizza folding.
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