On Thursday 07 May 2009 10.47.39 Vadim Zhukov wrote: > On Thursday 07 May 2009 12:30:25 LEVAI Daniel wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to display an applet which will show me my battery status > > in KDE3. I noticed that in Ksystemguard the acpi tree is totally > > missing, so I tried KControl/Power Control/Laptop Battery: > > It says on the configuration page, that "Other error opening APM > > control device /dev/apmctl". I thought that apmd(8) is using that > > device, so I killed it, but still I couldn't make the Battery Monitor > > start. > > Is it possible to make KDE's battery monitor work, or is there any > > other monitor application that will integrate into a standard > > freedesktop system-tray? > > Make sure that your user have write access to mentioned /dev/apmctl. By > default, only root can write to it. Oh, thanks. I didn't think that I needed write access too.
> It's some sort of unsecure advice, though. :( But on the personal > notebook, IMHO, it's acceptable. Daniel -- LIVAI Daniel PGP key ID = 0x4AC0A4B1 Key fingerprint = D037 03B9 C12D D338 4412 2D83 1373 917A 4AC0 A4B1
