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Date:      21 Apr 2003 17:50:06 +0100
From:      Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Gnome Mailing List <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: battstat-applet-2.0.4 vs Gnome-2
Message-ID:  <1050943805.695.255.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <1050943307.393.20.camel@gyros>
References:  <20030421134316.T29757@omni.vickiandstacey.com> <20030421145715.GA84702@sushi.andersa.net> <1050940353.695.247.camel@localhost>  <1050941159.393.4.camel@gyros> <1050943183.695.251.camel@localhost>  <1050943307.393.20.camel@gyros>

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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.., 

Regards,

Stacey

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

Web: www.vickiandstacey.com




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