How check battery status ? (FC3)

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, xray wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> i have a question regarding FC3 and the laptop battery status.
> Google says look at /proc/acpi/battery - the folder exsits, but no file
> (state) is there.
> Any other possibilities to check the status ?
> 
> I am using Gnome - graphical solutions ?

I use APM - and gnome-battery-applet/gkrellm show the status
correctly.

When I briefly tried ACPI - I thought gkrellm was able to read the
status properly.

Satish