HEADS UP: Realtime update support added to battstat

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

If you're running 5.X or higher, and have been longing for realtime
battery status updates in the battstat applet, apply this patch to devd:

http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/devd.diff

Then rebuild and restart devd.  Next, cvsup your ports tree, and rebuild
gnomeapplets2.  When you restart GNOME, you should find that battstat
will update as soon as you unplug your laptop without driving up the
CPU.

I talked with Warner about getting this patch put into devd officially,
and he says he's for it.  Once this happens, it should be much easier to
get access to devd events from userland.

To get devd working, do the following after downloading my patch:

# cd /usr
# patch -p < /path/to/devd.diff
# cd src/sbin/devd
# make all
# make install
# etc/rc.d/devd restart

Let me know what you think.

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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