battstat-applet-2.0.4 vs Gnome-2

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 12:50, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 17:41, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 12:39, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks for the reply.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The reason for my not being sure about this, is the fact that in the
> > > > > Makefile there reads:
> > > > > 
> > > > > USE_GNOME=      gnomehack gnomeprefix libpanel
> > > > > 
> > > > > As against what I recall reading in FreeBSD-Gnome advisories about that
> > > > > line reading "USE_GNOMENG", or something like that - as an indication as
> > > > > to the port's Gnome-2 status..,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Has this flag-setting changed, then?
> > > > 
> > > > This port will not work in GNOME 2.  Anders is correct, in that the new
> > > > battery applet in gnomeapplets2 should be comparable.
> > > 
> > > Is this:
> > > 
> > > Applications > System Tools > System Monitor
> > > 
> > > that you're referring to?
> > 
> > No.  Add to Panel > Utility > Battery Charge Monitor
> 
> Thanks for that, Joe. I got this error box:
> 
> Can't open the APM device
> 
> Make sure you have read permission to the APM device.
> 
> Can only root do this, or something? Sorry for the trivial questions..,
> this is the first *nix-laptop for me.., 

Do you have apm in the kernel, and apmd and apm enabled in rc.conf?  If
so, just chmod the /devl/apm* devices so you can access them.

Joe

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stacey
> 
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Stacey
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Joe
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Stacey
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Please spank me if I'm wrong.
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