Monitoring battery status in X via acpi

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 07:46:37AM +0200, Markus D. wrote:
> Hello
> 
> After upgrading to 5.1 the gnome battstat applet complains about not enabled
> APM. Obviously it does not support ACPI. Does anyone know a battery monitor
> for use within Gnome or X that does support ACPI in 5.x?

Funny. I'm running 5.1 and wmapm, which hasn't been rewritten for acpi,
works just fine.

The acpi code would appear to emulate a /dev/apm device.

BMS