topic title: Image level battery
Posts: 76
tremeur53
Joined: 29 Sep 2016
#1
Hello,
I am a Linux newbie and my English is very difficult! I am French...

Yesterday I installed Antix

The forum solved my Wifi connexion OK __{{emoticon}}__

I have a lot of questions but only one to begin
I have not an image of my battey capacity in the bottom of the screen.
For a laptop it's very important !

another one (sorry)
when I plug in my USB key, I do not know where to find it. I would like to see on the desktop

Info
THINKPAD T42

1Go Ram
100 Go HD
CPU Intel Pentium 1.7 Ghz

my little computer found a second youth! ! __{{emoticon}}__

InSystem information
- no batteries found on this system
- USB devices => empy !

AH I see my USB key in storage __{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
Watch these videos


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFWlej2CSKlXW5uE9opXukQ"
linktext was:"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFWlej ... 5uE9opXukQ"
====================================


They are in English. If you have a English speaking friend. Buy them lunch and ask them to watch them with you and interpet.

Battery?

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harry@biker:~
$ acpi -b
Battery 0: Discharging, 98%, 02:34:17 remaining
Posts: 76
tremeur53
Joined: 29 Sep 2016
#3
$ $ acpi -b
bash: $ : commande introuvable

????
Posts: 76
tremeur53
Joined: 29 Sep 2016
#4
$ $ acpi -b
bash: $ : commande introuvable
Dan@antiX1:~

???
Posts: 76
tremeur53
Joined: 29 Sep 2016
#5
A lot of videos ! ! witch one ??
And my english is so poor...
I am alone sorry

And I have a problem whith my wifi.
At home => direct connect
At bar (coffee !) it does not work. I see the points of network but it does not find IP or something like that. Not connecting !
My phone connect, when I worked with Windows 7 the computer connected without any problem.

For the battery, no matter, I will test the time it works at home, after I will know the time I can use the PC. (I think 2 hours)

And I need to Know where I can see my USB key and If I can put an icon on the desktop to look in it.

Thank's __{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 521
Shay
Joined: 20 Apr 2015
#6
Being deaf, sometimes I have to watch them several times before I understand the videos.
I wish I could hear, but close caption, I use on the ones that have it is a option I sometimes can use.

Hope that helps.
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tremeur53
Joined: 29 Sep 2016
#7
Thank you but do not forget that I started yesterday on LINUX!
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#8
To see if acpi is installed

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harry@biker:~
$ apt-cache policy acpi
acpi:
  Installed: 1.7-1
  Candidate: 1.7-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.7-1 0
        500 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
if not installed

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install acpi -y
Be patient tremeur53. Paris was not built on one day. You will get the hang of things eventually.
Like learning another language. Something clicks. Then things get easier.
Posts: 1,445
skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#9
1) desktopMenu, click"Control Centre" (i don't know what it would say in French)

2) in the Control Centre, click"Edit System Monitor(conky)" icon.
This loads .conkyrc (configuration file) ( geany /home/yourusername/.conkyrc ) into a text editor

3) in editor, scroll down to around line 210
##Battery examples##
##${color}battery: ${color}$acpiacadapter, ${battery_percent BAT1}%
##${color}battery:${color} ${battery}
#${color}ACPI Battery: ${color}$battery
#${battery_bar 11,0}
4) remove the start of line"comment" characters quoted above
5) perform File}}Save action in editor, then close editor

Afterward, after the conky utility has been stopped/restarted (when you logout, then login again)(or, in a terminal, command"killall conky" then"conky") you should see an onscreen"battery state indicator" displayed.

==========================

rok, do you remember the"batti" tray widget?
batti-gtk-solved-t4662.html?hilit=battery%20monitor
It's not in debian repos & its googlecode project page is gone
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#10
Here ya go. I'll tar mine up and upload my extracted source folder.



Simple dumb way to run batti for tremeur53

download and extract the tar using xarchiver in /home/<whatever user name is in your home folder>/

example

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@biker:~
$ ls
backup        cli-radio      Wallpaper
batti-0.3.8   Comics     Icons                   Pictures  weather.sh
Books         Desktop    Isos                    Screeny
Cartoons      Documents  kernelname.sh           test
Claws_Themes  Downloads  mocdata.py              Themes
cli_radio     Games      Music                   Videos
go inside the batti folder and just left click on batti. You should end up with a icon in taskbar with battery values shown.
I will now go to my other thread and upload a tar.gz there also for prosperity reasons.
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#11
thx for upload.
I didn't recall it being so large. Sure enough, when I went to look at its source code, discovered the archive file contains recursively pathed, multiple copies
/home/demo/Downloads/batti-0.3.8/batti-0.3.8/batti-0.3.8/batti-0.3.8/src

Within the sourcecode, I found an online location

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://gitorious.org/batti/batti"
linktext was:"https://gitorious.org/batti/batti"
====================================

and discovered there's a slightly changed, newer, version. (a never-released v0.3.9?)

FYI, this 4-line edit is the only functional change (all others are translation tweaks).
It results in a blinking tray icon when battery is discharging + less than 5% remaining...
...and a non-blinking icon otherwise

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://gitorious.org/batti/batti?p=batti:batti.git;a=commitdiff;h=41f4fbba901bbac4e760e5a83e2f3bfac7d6c71b"
linktext was:"https://gitorious.org/batti/batti?p=bat ... fac7d6c71b"
====================================
Posts: 76
tremeur53
Joined: 29 Sep 2016
#12

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Dan@antiX1:~
$ $ apt-cache policy acpi
bash: $ : commande introuvable
Dan@antiX1:~
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install acpi -y

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.
    #2) Think before you type.
    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

[sudo] password for Dan: 
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for Dan: 
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for Dan: 
Réception de : 1 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg [1 554 B]
Réception de : 2 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release [39,0 kB]   
Réception de : 3 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main i386 Packages [436 kB]
Réception de : 4 http://antix.daveserver.info stable Release.gpg [490 B]       
Réception de : 5 http://antix.daveserver.info stable Release [25,2 kB]         
Ign http://antix.daveserver.info stable Release                                
Réception de : 6 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/contrib i386 Packages [14 B]
Réception de : 7 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free i386 Packages [14 B]
Réception de : 8 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]
Réception de : 9 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Translation-en [239 kB]
Réception de : 10 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free Translation-en [14 B]
Réception de : 11 http://ftp.fr.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg [2 373 B]        
Réception de : 12 http://ftp.fr.debian.org wheezy Release [191 kB]          
Réception de : 13 http://antix.daveserver.info stable/main i386 Packages [70,8 kB]
Réception de : 14 http://ftp.fr.debian.org wheezy/main i386 Packages [5 857 kB]
Ign http://antix.daveserver.info stable/main Translation-fr_FR                 
Ign http://antix.daveserver.info stable/main Translation-fr              
Ign http://antix.daveserver.info stable/main Translation-en              
Réception de : 15 http://ftp.fr.debian.org wheezy/contrib i386 Packages [42,3 kB]
Réception de : 16 http://ftp.fr.debian.org wheezy/non-free i386 Packages [77,6 kB]
Réception de : 17 http://ftp.fr.debian.org wheezy/contrib Translation-en [34,8 kB]
Réception de : 18 http://ftp.fr.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-fr [751 kB] 
Réception de : 19 http://ftp.fr.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en [3 846 kB]
Réception de : 20 http://ftp.fr.debian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en [66,1 kB]
11,7 Mo réceptionnés en 21s (533 ko/s)                                         
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
W: Aucune clé publique n'est disponible pour la/les clé(s) suivante(s) :
9D6D8F6BC857C906
W: Erreur de GPG : http://antix.daveserver.info stable Release : Les signatures suivantes ne sont pas valables : KEYEXPIRED 1426281549 KEYEXPIRED 1426281549 KEYEXPIRED 1426281549
W: Aucune clé publique n'est disponible pour la/les clé(s) suivante(s) :
7638D0442B90D010
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances       
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
acpi est déjà la plus récente version disponible.
Le paquet suivant a été installé automatiquement et n'est plus nécessaire :
  libqt4-gui
Veuillez utiliser « apt-get autoremove » pour le supprimer.
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 231 non mis à jour.
Dan@antiX1:~
$
I debuted, I understand nothing!
Posts: 76
tremeur53
Joined: 29 Sep 2016
#13
1) desktopMenu, click"Control Centre" (i don't know what it would say in French)

2) in the Control Centre, click"Edit System Monitor(conky)" icon.
This loads .conkyrc (configuration file) ( geany /home/yourusername/.conkyrc ) into a text editor

3) in editor, scroll down to around line 210
Sorry I do not find __{{emoticon}}__

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 batti-0.3.8.tar.gz [128.08 KiB]
Downloaded 1 time
Ihave download, it is in HOME/Dan/ But I do not know how to extract ! ! right click do not have extrator application
Posts: 76
tremeur53
Joined: 29 Sep 2016
#14
Thank you all, but it's too complicated English.
I'll get a French forum.
Otherwise I'll look for another linux distribution.
I am really sorry.

Or I buy a new laptop that works with windows! Windows XP no longer works on my old Thinkpad! I have no money ! !

antix I really like.
I just want a wifi that works (I'll buy another USB wireless key) and to use my USB key. For the battery, it is not serious. I can do without it.
Posts: 76
tremeur53
Joined: 29 Sep 2016
#15
The wifi connect at home when I start the laptop. But it disconnect a time later !
Outside (Bar) it does not work.
I try to explain :
I Write a book. I write about an online Wiki on my server. So I need wifi everywhere I go.
I just need internet and freeoffice.
I am 63 !
I was a web developer. I stopped working for writing my book. I'm not rich and I love my Thinkpad! !
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