Wardolf Battery Icon Observation

Brianrh · 2012-10-26 17:31:51

I don't know if this has been mentioned before and if anyone else has noticed that after a laptop wakes up from being suspended, the battery icon has moved to the left along the panel on the desktop. Further suspensions and awakenings causes it to move further left.

rkwurth · 2012-10-27 02:08:52

You are not alone.

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … rom-sleep/

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Tuber · 2012-10-27 19:57:40

That's a bug between Tint2 and the Xfce4 power mananger. I switched to the Xfce4 panel instead of Tiint2 and I no longer have that problem. You could also try a different power manager.

Brianrh · 2012-10-27 20:46:29

Thanks for that Tuber. It's not a problem at the moment but I will bear your suggestion in mind.

pvsage · 2012-10-27 21:01:37

AFAIK, it's a fairly old bug too, and the only *fix* (not so much a fix as a "deal with it" roll ) is to restart Tint2. Fortunately enough, Fearless Leader included this in the default Openbox menu.

wuxmedia · 2012-10-28 00:51:43

or 'never show icons' in the powermanager config.

pvsage · 2012-10-28 00:56:16

Sure, I guess, since the menu item for it is always only a few keytaps away...but it's nice sometimes to see that estimation of how much battery power you have left in the systray. wink

gurtid · 2012-10-28 01:43:35

^ #!s default tint2 has an equally effective battery status monitor. I use that instead of the xfce4 one and and quite happy with it.

VDP76 · 2012-10-28 11:30:55

^^ or one can also use conky to display battery info..isn't it!? smile

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Tuber · 2012-10-29 01:43:53

gurtid wrote:

^ #!s default tint2 has an equally effective battery status monitor...

To do this set the Xcfe4 power manager to never show its icon, then edit the tint2 config and set "battery = 1" and "battery_hide = never" and restart tint2. You'll see a little text readout of your battery percentage and remaining run time. You can also set battery_hide to a percentage, above which the battery monitor will not display.

I just switched back to tint2 to try this and I like it. Hadn't really thought to check if tint2 supported battery monitoring. D'oh! (RTFM)

Now I'm kind of torn. I've gotten a bit spoiled by the more feature rich Xfce4 panel, but I also like how clean and simple tint2 is. Guess I'll run with tint2 for a while and see how it goes.

Aloha, Tim

EDIT: Thanks for the tip, gurtid!

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VastOne · 2012-10-29 03:07:13

^ FYI, tint2 can be enhanced to be a lot more like Xfce-panel. I use Xfce 4.10 but cannot stand the panel primarily due to how limited it is, how it seems/is underdeveloped and that it also leaks memory.

That is what got me on my journey to make tint2 better.

mikhou · 2012-10-29 04:06:49

I just bound "tint2restart" to a keystroke so that when it happens I can quickly restart tint2 without having to go through the menu or Alt+F2.

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