battstat-applet-2.0.4 vs Gnome-2

[Stacey Roberts]

Hello,

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 17:53, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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.

I've got apm enabled in the kernel, however nothing about apmd / apm in
/etc/rc.conf :-(

I'll see what I can find on enabling this.,

Regards,

Stacey

> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Stacey
> > 
> > > 
> > > Joe
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > 
> > > > Stacey
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Joe
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Stacey
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Please spank me if I'm wrong.
-- 
Stacey Roberts
B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science

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