lawsonrc Posted April 20, 2003 Report Share Posted April 20, 2003 I really like KDE, but I also like Gnome, too. In Gnome, there are a couple of utilities that I found in a few seconds and added to the panel in MDK 9.1: One Gnome utility is the Battery Charge Monitor, which is a nice graphical icon that shows the status of one's laptop battery with a popup tooltip to show the percentage of the battery that is left. In the preferences, the battery color levels as default are: yellow 40%, orange 25%, Red 15% (these defaults can be changed). A popup window can give a warning when the battery is low so that one can plug in the AC adaptor; also a beep (these too can be turned off or on). Another quite nice Gnome utility is the Wireless Link Monitor 2.2.0 for one's wireless card. On the panel, it can show the wireless card's signal strength in percentage. When I am in KDE 3.1, I have searched high and low to find equivalent utilities to sit on the panel, but can't find them. They may be right under my nose. Can someone point me in the right direction so that I can add them, please? Thanks! Richard L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkrekula Posted April 20, 2003 Report Share Posted April 20, 2003 On my IBM Thinkpad A21m laptop, a battery monitor was installed by default in KDE and Mandrake 9.1. I think that this monitor relies on APM and the settings for it are found in the KDE control center. Do you use ACPI or APM? /Kenneth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawsonrc Posted April 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2003 Well, Kenneth, the battery monitor was there the whole time next to KOrganizer and the clock in the lower right side. I didn't see it because my panel was tiny, and I've been playing around in Gnome for a while and forgot. My laptop is one of the "newer" ones (13 months old) with ACPI and also legacy free BIOS. And the battery monitor *does* work nicely with ACPI. **However**, I really would like to know if KDE has a Wireless Card Monitor that shows the signal strength for the Wireless Card. I finally found something called PCMCIA and put it on the KDE panel, but it does absolutely nothing...N-A-D-A. It is totally useless. It just shows that the wireless card is in eth1 (as if I didn't already know that...d'uh!) I'm wondering if any other users on this forum have wireless with their laptops and are using KDE. Do you use wireless? I have a Linksys WPC11 (802.11b) card, but all brands of Wi-Fi cards would be monitored the same. Thanks again! Sincerely, Richard L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dturley Posted April 21, 2003 Report Share Posted April 21, 2003 gkrellm has both battery and wireless monitor plugins. http://web.wt.net/~billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html For kde 3 there is also KWiFiManager http://kwifimanager.sourceforge.net/ For KED battey manager it's there too, in the control panel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawsonrc Posted April 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2003 Many many thanks, dturley! I now have KWiFiManager working on my panel and also gkrellm on my desktop. I appreciate your help and Kenneth's very much! Sincerely, Richard L. :D :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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