kde power/battery applet gone. Suspend key combination disappeared.
Paul Johnson
pauljohn32 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 19:36:24 UTC 2007
On an F8 system that was upgraded from F7, I'm running KDE. I enabled
the kde update repository from kde-redhat project
http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
Last week, yum update installed a new package, kdebase-3.5.8-9.fc8.
I do not know if that particular package came from the fedora 8 update
repository or the kde-redhat system because yum-updatesd grabbed it
overnight.
Since then, I notice two weird things and need some help. The kicker
panel no longer has a battery power indicator. In the list of
applets, I don't find one called battery monitor or such. As far as I
can tell, that was in kdebase before, but not now. Did it move to a
new package? I can confirm that the acpi subsystem of the kernel is
working because:
$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/*
alarm: 780 mAh
present: yes
design capacity: 7800 mAh
last full capacity: 6959 mAh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 11100 mV
design capacity warning: 780 mAh
design capacity low: 236 mAh
capacity granularity 1: 78 mAh
capacity granularity 2: 78 mAh
model number: DELL YD6236
serial number: 1977
battery type: LION
OEM info: SMP
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: charged
present rate: 1 mA
remaining capacity: 7800 mAh
present voltage: 12959 mV
The second weird thing is that the key combination Fn-Esc used to
cause suspend-to-ram (The Esc key has "Stand by" written in blue, the
same color as the Fn key. Know what I mean?) Now it does nothing. I
can suspend by clicking the KDE log out button and choosing suspend.
But I can't see where Fn-Esc is supposed to be configured.
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
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