Re: Battery applet for Thinkpad 240/XFCE4

john_at_starfleet.os2.dhs.org
Date: 12/17/04

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    Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:58:31 GMT

    On 2004-12-16, Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz@mn.rr.com> wrote:

    > John Thompson wrote:

    >> I'm trying to get a battery applet working for my TP-240 running
    >> Vectorlinux-4.3 (kernel 2.6.7) and using XFCE4 for my desktop.
    >>
    >> The XFCE web site lists a battery applet in the "goodies" section, but I
    >> can't get it to compile. It seems to require pkg-config, which doesn't
    >> seem to be a part of Vectorlinux.
    >>
    >> Are there any other such programs that might work on the TP-240?
    >>
    >
    > If you go here:
    >
    > http://www.os-cillation.com/article.php?sid=42
    >
    > You will find great installers for the latest release candidates for
    > Xfce 4.2 and the associated Goodies applets. That is the easiest way to
    > install them.
    >
    > In order to compile the panel applets from source, you need to have the
    > Xfce4 panel source and header files available, which is likely why you
    > are having problems.

    I have the header files, but apparently not the pkg-config entry that the
    configure script insists on looking for.

    > If you can wait a few days, there was just a post to the Xfce list by
    > Olivier Fourdan regarding the possibility of releasing 4.2 RC3 this
    > weekend, which might be the last RC before 4.2 final.
    >
    > If not, go ahead and use the RC2 installers. It has been very stable.
    >
    > I have been running Xfce since the RH 9 days and love it. I moved to the
    > CVS version of 4.2 earlier this year and it has been great.

    I picked up the XFCE-4.2rc2 sources, and I must say it's quite huge. I
    started using XFCE during the v1.x days when I was running linux on a 32MB
    machine, and kept using it up to v3, but never made the move to v4. XFCE
    has gotten quite a bit more complex since v3. 

    -- 
John (john@os2.dhs.org)
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