gkrellm-ThinkBat - a IBM Thinkpad battery monitor plugin for gkrellm2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gkrellm-ThinkBat is meant as a replacement for the default gkrellm battery meter, which doesn't quite work with thinkpads sometimes. (because of incomplete /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0 information?) It uses the IBM Thinkpad SMAPI Driver. Features -------- It shows battery percentage, time left (or time to full charge) and power consumption or loading in Watts. Except for the optional time/consumption panel and battery percentage in different font it should look the same as default battery meter. It uses the same decals, so you need to change those (i.e. ../theme/decal_misc.png), if you need to. Requirements ------------ Gkrellm2, tp_smapi >= 0.16. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpctl) It was tested with Gkrellm 2.2.7 and tp_smapi-0.16. Installation ------------ $ make $ make install this installs gkrellm-thinkbat.so to ~/.gkrellm2/plugins/. You can copy it manually elsewhere. Bugs ---- I needed this applet, so I looked at others, that I used (namely gkrellm2-batteries by Eugene Pavlovsky, gkrellm-wifi by Henrik Brix Andersen, and gkrellm-multiping by Jindrich Makovicka), and wrote it. Therefore, it may contain hideous bugs caused by my own ignorance, as I didn't even know of the plugin writing manuals of GkrellM.