kde power/battery applet gone. Suspend key combination disappeared.

[Rex Dieter]

Paul Johnson wrote:

> 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:

2 options:
* kpowersave (preferred)
* klaptop (from kdeutils-extras), deprecated, use at own risk

The upgrade likely reset permissions.  If you still want to use the klaptop
daemon, you'll need to goto KControl -> Power Control and redo the setup.

-- Rex