If I run xfce4-battery-plugin when acpid isn't installed, it will display strange "50%%" on panel and no reaction to either plugin's settings will be. If acpid is running, all is fine. So I make a suggestion: 1) add the acpid in dependencies of the packet; and/or 2) check at plugin's start that acpid is running and, if not, display the appropriate error message. I have xfce 4.4.1 and xfce4-battery-plugin 0.5.0-1. P.S. I chosen component "ristretto" only to commit the bug, why there is no other entries?
re-assigning to goodies@xfce.org (goodies maintainers) change product to panel plugins
Created attachment 2023 use sysfs you don't necessarily need acpid, attached patch makes xfce4-battery read from sysfs, which is the new interface to the battery. the proc interface has been removed in recent kernel versions
(In reply to comment #2) > Created an attachment (id=2023) [details] > use sysfs > > you don't necessarily need acpid, attached patch makes xfce4-battery read from > sysfs, which is the new interface to the battery. the proc interface has been > removed in recent kernel versions Hmhm, recent battery plugin already reads data from sysfs if available. Did you test it?
(In reply to comment #3) > Hmhm, recent battery plugin already reads data from sysfs if available. Did you > test it? Sorry, wrong, we patch it for that. Sorry for the noise. It'd be nice if the patch was integrated (or if the plugin switched to the hal_based branch)
The patch in bug #3793 has been integrated. Sorry for the long wait. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3793 ***