E-AcpiPower 0.9.0 review

E-AcpiPowe is a small Enlightenment epplet which will show you how much power is left in your batteries. It is modified to read batt

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 181K Developer: Florian Schaefer

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E-AcpiPowe is a small Enlightenment epplet which will show you how much power is left in your batteries.

It is modified to read battery status information using the new acpi module. It is much more accurate and reliable than the old apm method (at least on my laptop).

I know that the modifications are ugly but they work for me and this is my first contribution to the world of programmers so please be not too harsh in your judgement.

Installation:

Modify the EROOT and EBIN in the Makefile header according to your enlightenment installation if they aren't already set as environment variables (check with `echo $EROOT; echo $EBIN`).

The rest is straight forward:

make
su
make install

If you get an error like "cannot find -lGL" check the Makefile for a proposed solution.

Should the battery-symbol be missing you may need to modify EROOT in E-AcpiPower.c as described there.

Requirements:
You'll need Enlightenment, of course, a working installation of the Epplet-base and a kernel with acpi-support. Note: You cannot have apm and acpi enabled at the same time.

Acpi is available if /proc/acpi/ exists, there you will need the subdirectories for the battery and the ac-adapter for E-AcpiPower to work.