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Béèm · Posted: Tue 26 Jul 2011, 13:54 Post subject:

Thanks for the pet pemasu.
But I get

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5169 Location: Finland

Beem. Delete from the /root/Startup/1vattery script everything else but leave exec vattery-acpitool. It might help.

Béèm · Posted: Tue 26 Jul 2011, 16:01 Post subject:

There is no vattery-acpitool in StartUp.
When executed in a terminal, i see acpitool is missing.
Apparently not included in spup 311.
I installed and vattery-acpitool gives the icon in the tray and blue as the battery is charged.
Strange that Micko didn't include the correct battery tool.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5169 Location: Finland

Beem. I meaned script 1vattery in /root//Startup. Inside that script leave only exec vattery-acpitool, delete everything else. Vattery-ibam is not usable to all.
There was in my pet vattery-acpitool and vattery-ibam binaries which were installed in /usr/local/bin.

But installling acpitool seems to fix your problem also. I didnt know that. I have acpitool installed in all my builds and I install it firsthand when I test other Puppies.
My machine probably uses vattery-ibam for battery status and I havent noticed the dependency to acpitool based on above reasons.
That was good tip. Thank you Beem

So my pet needs acpitool and maybe that script editing if it does not work straight. Vattery-ibam (if it works), does not need acpitool.

Béèm · Posted: Tue 26 Jul 2011, 16:21 Post subject:

You're welcome pemasu.
Also, your 'cold'puppy's are nice pieces of work.
I like them.

sjsrikanth · Joined: 28 Mar 2011 Posts: 110 Location: Chennai, India

@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 · Joined: 23 May 2011 Posts: 98

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 · Joined: 28 Mar 2011 Posts: 110 Location: Chennai, India

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 · Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 15 Location: Tampa Bay

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. Smile

bones01 · Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 363 Location: Melbourne, Aus