Hi all,

A few weeks ago we discussed simple, works-on-all-wmde components like
fbpanel. Another one that I like is xbattmon. It's a no-frills battery
monitor that presents as a very thin horizontal "gauge" across the
bottom of the screen, whether or not you have a panel. Colors and
stripe width are configurable. I configured mine to be about 3 or 4
pixels, be green when the computer is plugged into the wall. When not
plugged in, it's blue on the left and red on the right: The
intersection of the two is how much of the battery is used up.

Unfortunately, I think my color scheme would fail for a color blind
person, and xbattmon is one of those tiny programs configured by
changing constants in the config.h file and recompiling, so it's
certainly not for everybody. But I think golinux could make a nice set
of defaults that would work for most people, and I could supply a
document to download, change colors, and recompile.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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