Systray's battery icon

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sjsrikanth · #21 Post by **sjsrikanth** » Wed 27 Jul 2011, 02:37

@john3voltas

Since you say puppy knows about your battery status but shows only a grey icon...I guess there may be a problem with reading the inbuilt .xpm files.
Please back up your 'powerapplet_tray' file in your 'Startup' directory and try installing this pet (its the same applet with different theme). Hope this works!
- You will need to restart xserver after installation.

john3voltas · #22 Post by **john3voltas** » Wed 27 Jul 2011, 22:06

It's gone worse.
Now I only have a small red cross icon instead of the battery icon.
This is driving me nuts.
Worst thing is, I do like 525 way better than 431 because of debian/ubuntu compatibility.
Sure wouldn't like to go with plain old 431.
BTW, 431's battery icon works flawlessly.
Cheers

sjsrikanth · #23 Post by **sjsrikanth** » Fri 29 Jul 2011, 06:03

Sorry it didnt' work, works well with my laptop...anyway. Hope you did back up the applet b4 you installed replace the new one with it if you want to go back to the grey icon. Meanwhile let me think of something else..

kenh · #24 Post by **kenh** » Sun 20 Nov 2011, 21:13

I'm now using Slacko Puppy 5.3 and the battery icon now works on my Eee pc 900. It shows the amount of charge that's left by the red level in the indicator. Now if I can get a working cpu temp indicator, I would be very happy.

bones01 · #25 Post by **bones01** » Mon 30 Jan 2012, 09:39

john3voltas wrote:It's gone worse.
Now I only have a small red cross icon instead of the battery icon.
This is driving me nuts.
Worst thing is, I do like 525 way better than 431 because of debian/ubuntu compatibility.
Sure wouldn't like to go with plain old 431.
BTW, 431's battery icon works flawlessly.
Cheers

John, I've finally got some time to try to find an answer to this very same problem. I'm using 5.2.8 on a frugal install, but have the same problem here that I had with 5.2.5.

Did you find an answer?

Bones

jdalink · #26 Post by **jdalink** » Fri 05 Jul 2013, 14:58

hi, i'm currently using Slacko 5.5 and have noticed that i have been experiencing the same problem but after test some of the advices of this post with no results, i manage to solve the problem.
By replacing the "powerapplet_tray" file located in "/root/Startup/" by the file who came with the Precise puppy version. And after an X restart the applet starts to show the status of my battery.

RetroTechGuy · #27 Post by **RetroTechGuy** » Tue 20 Aug 2013, 16:41

Thanks pemasu,

Just installed vattery-ibam under 5.28.005. Works great, so far!

(this is the first time that I had a laptop with enough battery that I could run wireless -- so battery capacity becomes relevant))

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