Description: A Superkaramba theme wich displays your acpi status, the charge of your battery and the time remaining until it is (dis)charged. You have a choice of 4 flat themes in the configure menu.Last changelog:
Released 1.1:
Now you can configure (in the configure menu) the directory location of your AC status file (usually /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC or /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0) so it will theorically work on all computers.
Hi AdrienV, i was atracted for the simplicity of your acpi monitor so I downloaded. it didn't work, but making some change to the code (the beauty of GPL) its started works.
I'm planing to do some develop on it whith the goal to "keep it simple". I would be glad to hear you opinion about it. you can found it in:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=69681
The first version (0.1) it is only your original work whith some arrenge.
Thanks.
Hi,
I have an APC USB and am using apcupsd deamno.
I installed your nice theme but am not able to:
1) change themes
2) customize it providing the correct path.
Could you please provide detailed info on how to set this up?
I currently use gentoo amd64 with kde 3.4.2
Thank you,
Spiro
I can´t seem to figure this theme out...
I fire it up in superkaramba 0.35 (gentoo) and all I get is a light-blue box, a brown battery with the plugged in symbol, and a white bar...
ACPI is enabled (klaptop works...)
Any idea what´s wrong?
-palmem
Sorry but I haven't been updating it for a long time... So it's still for superkaramba 0.34...
You should use my new Aero-G ACPI theme wich is made for superkaramba 0.35.
But if you really want to use this version, I will update it...
I got exactly the same problem... also with gentoo...
it seems that the output of '/usr/bin/acpi -t' does not contain information about the battery status.
on my box (dell inspiron 8500 notebook) it only contains informations about thermal zone1.
@AdrienV:
wouldn't it be better to collect the informations about battery-, ac-status from the '/proc/acpi' folder?
i'm actually not experienced with python, but since i'm studying informatics, i'm trying to change that...
if you're interested please contact me, or i can send you a copy of my version when i get it to work
You can take Aero-G ACPI's code that have been updated...
On my computer it does that:
$ acpi -t
Battery 1: charged, 100%
Thermal 1: ok, 96.0 degrees C
hm, I looked around and found out that there seems to be a problem with the implementation of the 'acpi' util...
on my laptop it doesn't show all plugged in batteries when using 'acpi -t'. I only get the second battery, or the first if it gets charged...
at the moment I'm rewriting the code, so that it detects if there are 1 or 2 batteries. it will also fix the problem mentioned above...
but please don't ask, I don't know when its ready... don't have much time right now...
I will mail you the code when I'm ready, ok?
Hi! Can you give a description of your whole desktop? I'd like to know all the superkaramba themes you've used... as well as other programs (I think ksmooothdock maybe?)
Looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes as you expected I use ksmoothdock as bottom bar. My karamba themes are xmms-fullbar from "light 'n crisp" (with a home made background: white at alpha=20%), tuxmon with my background and some modifications, liquid weather plus with "plain white - flat 2" background and my WiFi and ACPI monitors. The desktop background is a picture (taken by a friend) from 3 Cap10 planes on the Carcassonne-Salvaza airport (France).
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Hi AdrienV, i was atracted for the simplicity of your acpi monitor so I downloaded. it didn't work, but making some change to the code (the beauty of GPL) its started works. I'm planing to do some develop on it whith the goal to "keep it simple". I would be glad to hear you opinion about it. you can found it in: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=69681 The first version (0.1) it is only your original work whith some arrenge. Thanks.
Hi, I have an APC USB and am using apcupsd deamno. I installed your nice theme but am not able to: 1) change themes 2) customize it providing the correct path. Could you please provide detailed info on how to set this up? I currently use gentoo amd64 with kde 3.4.2 Thank you, Spiro
I can´t seem to figure this theme out... I fire it up in superkaramba 0.35 (gentoo) and all I get is a light-blue box, a brown battery with the plugged in symbol, and a white bar... ACPI is enabled (klaptop works...) Any idea what´s wrong? -palmem
Sorry but I haven't been updating it for a long time... So it's still for superkaramba 0.34... You should use my new Aero-G ACPI theme wich is made for superkaramba 0.35. But if you really want to use this version, I will update it...
I got exactly the same problem... also with gentoo... it seems that the output of '/usr/bin/acpi -t' does not contain information about the battery status. on my box (dell inspiron 8500 notebook) it only contains informations about thermal zone1. @AdrienV: wouldn't it be better to collect the informations about battery-, ac-status from the '/proc/acpi' folder? i'm actually not experienced with python, but since i'm studying informatics, i'm trying to change that... if you're interested please contact me, or i can send you a copy of my version when i get it to work
You can take Aero-G ACPI's code that have been updated... On my computer it does that: $ acpi -t Battery 1: charged, 100% Thermal 1: ok, 96.0 degrees C
hm, I looked around and found out that there seems to be a problem with the implementation of the 'acpi' util... on my laptop it doesn't show all plugged in batteries when using 'acpi -t'. I only get the second battery, or the first if it gets charged... at the moment I'm rewriting the code, so that it detects if there are 1 or 2 batteries. it will also fix the problem mentioned above... but please don't ask, I don't know when its ready... don't have much time right now... I will mail you the code when I'm ready, ok?
No problem!
Hi! Can you give a description of your whole desktop? I'd like to know all the superkaramba themes you've used... as well as other programs (I think ksmooothdock maybe?) Looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes as you expected I use ksmoothdock as bottom bar. My karamba themes are xmms-fullbar from "light 'n crisp" (with a home made background: white at alpha=20%), tuxmon with my background and some modifications, liquid weather plus with "plain white - flat 2" background and my WiFi and ACPI monitors. The desktop background is a picture (taken by a friend) from 3 Cap10 planes on the Carcassonne-Salvaza airport (France).