If the Linux kernel is built to support ACPI, then the xfce4-battery plugin for the XFCE panel does not work, constantly displaying "50%%". This can be solved by emerging acpid. While this is an upstream problem and there is a bug on the issue (http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3579), it would be convenient if the ebuild would be aware of that for the time being. I propose to make the ebuild aware of the acpi USE flag, and to pull in acpid as a dependency when it is set. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compile ACPI support into the kernel 2. make sure acpid is not installed 3. emerge =xfce4-battery-0.5.0-r2 4. enable the plugin in the panel and behold the strange "50%%"
it still shows 50%% for me with acpid running this is fixed by using sysfs instead of proc, fixed now
(In reply to comment #1) Hi Christoph, > this is fixed by using sysfs instead of proc, fixed now This is a bit too brief for me. Is it fixed in the xfce4-battery plugin? Or in the ebuild? Or elsewhere? Best regards, Florian
