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zaivala · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 125

I'm absolutely positive someone has addressed this, but after 5 Searches and getting told I need to wait longer between searches...

Why is there not a battery monitor or indicator in the taskbar? What can I do to install/view/use one?

This is particularly an issue, as when my battery runs out in Puppy it shuts the computer off. Totally. And then I have to tell Puppy (upon reboot) to ignore the fact that X was shut down improperly.

I am using Puppy 571 on an ASUS X550CA.

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 2125 Location: Maine, USA

Vattery

Is rather dated. Your mileage may vary.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 21 Dec 2013, 16:54 Post subject:

Look in /root/Startup for powerapplet_tray. This is the battery monitor, but it apparently is not working for you.

Look in /var/log/messages.

rokytnji · Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 2288

This runs in JWM for me in AntiX. Maybe it works in Puppy?

http://antix.freeforums.org/batti-gtk-solved-t4662.html

Just make a bash startup file with batti & in Startup in rox maybe?

zaivala · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 125

zaivala · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 125

I grabbed a couple from the Ubuntu repositories...

They are each missing the following dependencies:
combobox
ftp
img
tablelist
tktable
uri

and the good news is, the Ubuntu repositories claim to not include combobox... I didn't check the others, stopped at first roadblock.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 21 Dec 2013, 18:47 Post subject:

zaivala · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 125

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 22 Dec 2013, 08:54 Post subject:

From the command line, run

zaivala · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 125

# ps
PID USER TIME COMMAND
1 root 0:00 /bin/busybox init
2 root 0:00 [kthreadd]
3 root 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
5 root 0:00 [kworker/0:0H]
6 root 0:01 [kworker/u:0]
7 root 0:00 [kworker/u:0H]
8 root 0:00 [migration/0]
9 root 0:00 [rcu_bh]
10 root 0:00 [rcu_sched]
11 root 0:00 [migration/1]
12 root 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
13 root 0:00 [kworker/1:0]
14 root 0:00 [kworker/1:0H]
15 root 0:00 [khelper]
16 root 0:00 [bdi-default]
17 root 0:00 [kblockd]
18 root 0:00 [ata_sff]
19 root 0:00 [khubd]
20 root 0:00 [md]
21 root 0:00 [kworker/0:1]
22 root 0:00 [kswapd0]
23 root 0:00 [fsnotify_mark]
24 root 0:00 [crypto]
30 root 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
31 root 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
32 root 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
33 root 0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
34 root 0:00 [scsi_eh_4]
35 root 0:00 [scsi_eh_5]
40 root 0:00 [kworker/u:5]
42 root 0:00 [scsi_eh_6]
45 root 0:00 [scsi_eh_7]
47 root 0:00 [kpsmoused]
48 root 0:00 [deferwq]
49 root 0:00 [kworker/1:2]
189 root 0:00 [kworker/0:1H]
230 root 0:00 [kworker/0:2]
304 root 0:00 [flush-8:0]
350 root 0:00 [kworker/1:1H]
503 root 0:00 [jbd2/sda4-8]
504 root 0:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]
509 root 0:00 [loop1]
572 root 0:00 [flush-7:1]
575 root 0:00 [loop0]
618 root 0:00 [loop4]
623 root 0:00 [loop5]
628 root 0:00 [loop6]
822 root 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon --resolve-names=early
2419 root 0:00 [led_workqueue]
3350 root 0:00 [cfg80211]
3686 root 0:00 [kmemstick]
3926 root 0:00 [hd-audio0]
4503 root 0:00 -sh
4504 root 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
4505 root 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4585 root 0:00 {xwin} /bin/sh /usr/bin/xwin
4637 root 0:00 /usr/bin/xinit /root/.xinitrc -- -br -nolisten tcp
4638 root 0:02 X :0 -br -nolisten tcp
4708 root 0:00 wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/simple_network_se
4712 root 0:01 jwm
4803 root 0:00 syslogd -m 0
4805 root 0:00 klogd
4813 root 0:00 /usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer/ROX-Filer -p /root/Choices/ROX-
4814 root 0:00 /usr/local/pup_event/pup_event_frontend_d
4837 root 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
4845 nobody 0:00 /usr/bin/gdomap -I /var/run/gdomap.pid -p
4854 messageb 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
4980 root 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon --resolve-names=early
4982 root 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon --resolve-names=early
5163 root 0:00 xload -nolabel -bg #888888 -fg red -hl white
5276 root 0:00 {delayedrun} /bin/sh /usr/sbin/delayedrun
5278 root 0:00 /root/Startup/freememapplet_tray
5356 root 0:00 {delayedrun} /bin/sh /usr/sbin/delayedrun
5359 root 0:00 /root/Startup/network_tray
5471 root 0:00 {delayedrun} /bin/sh /usr/sbin/delayedrun
5473 root 0:00 retrovol -hide
5540 root 0:00 dhcpcd wlan0
6634 root 0:18 mozilla
6654 root 0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch 9114cc65a7ee4c61af0292b600000077
6655 root 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address
6657 root 0:00 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gconf/gconfd-2
8935 root 0:00 [kworker/0:0]
10104 root 0:00 /usr/bin/urxvt
10105 root 0:00 bash
10228 root 0:00 busybox ps

# /root/startup/powerapplet_tray
bash: /root/startup/powerapplet_tray: No such file or directory

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 22 Dec 2013, 09:01 Post subject:

zaivala · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 125

Thank you, rcrsn51. Now I get:

# /root/Startup/powerapplet_tray
Floating point exception

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 22 Dec 2013, 19:30 Post subject:

zaivala · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 125

Already tried ibam...it is missing many dependencies, the first (at least) of which is not available in the repository... combobox, ftp, img, tablelist, tktable and uri

cimarron · Joined: 30 May 2013 Posts: 293

I use Pbatt, which is pretty old, but I like it because it is simple and it's easy to change the icons used in the tray to whatever you want. Here's the original thread (with picture):

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36492

The sources for some newer versions of Pbatt are available through this post on BK's blog:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01409

I have 0.3.2, and edited the bevent code to give an audible puppy bark when the battery gets very low. Also added a check so pbatt will only launch if a battery is present. I could provide these, if you're interested. Mine looks like this (with tooltip visible):