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portable >> Battery applet for Thinkpad 240/XFCE4

by John Thompson » Fri, 17 Dec 2004 04:58:30 GMT

I'm trying to get a battery applet working for my TP-240 running
Vectorlinux-4.3 (kernel 2.6.7) and using XFCE4 for my desktop.

The XFCE web site lists a battery applet in the "goodies" section, but I
can't get it to compile. It seems to require pkg-config, which doesn't
seem to be a part of Vectorlinux.

Are there any other such programs that might work on the TP-240?

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portable >> Battery applet for Thinkpad 240/XFCE4

by Marc Schwartz » Fri, 17 Dec 2004 05:28:00 GMT





If you go here:

http://www.os-cillation.com/article.php?sid=42

You will find great installers for the latest release candidates for
Xfce 4.2 and the associated Goodies applets. That is the easiest way to
install them.

In order to compile the panel applets from source, you need to have the
Xfce4 panel source and header files available, which is likely why you
are having problems.

If you can wait a few days, there was just a post to the Xfce list by
Olivier Fourdan regarding the possibility of releasing 4.2 RC3 this
weekend, which might be the last RC before 4.2 final.

If not, go ahead and use the RC2 installers. It has been very stable.

I have been running Xfce since the RH 9 days and love it. I moved to the
CVS version of 4.2 earlier this year and it has been great.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz


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portable >> Battery applet for Thinkpad 240/XFCE4

by john » Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:58:31 GMT







I have the header files, but apparently not the pkg-config entry that the
configure script insists on looking for.


I picked up the XFCE-4.2rc2 sources, and I must say it's quite huge. I
started using XFCE during the v1.x days when I was running linux on a 32MB
machine, and kept using it up to v3, but never made the move to v4. XFCE
has gotten quite a bit more complex since v3.

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Battery applet for Thinkpad 240/XFCE4

by Marc Schwartz » Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:58:14 GMT





There is more information here:

http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=documentation&lang=en

Note that the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable needs to point to
certain .pc files in the source code tree.

The installers I referenced are likely to be easier as it does takes
some tweaking to get building from source correct.


I do not have a frame of reference for comparison relative to earlier
versions, though I have seen comments on the Xfce lists from folks who,
like you, started using it a while back. No doubt it has evolved from
it's beginnings.

I started using 4.x when I got frustrated with some of the behavioral
changes in RH 9 with GNOME and Metacity (GNOME's WM). I made the shift
to Xfce after evaluating other options and have stayed with it since,
now running FC3.

Marc

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