Quoting Andreas Petzold <Andreas.Petzold at mailbox.tu-dresden.de>: > Hi, > > Quoting Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>: > >> I've seen this once before- and now it's back. Battery monitor is showing 2 >> icons in panel. >> >> I thought maybe there were 2 instances, so I deleted one, and both icons >> disappeared. Adding back battery widget, I've got 2 icons again. >> kdebase-4.2.1-2.fc10.x86_64 > > I've seen an instance of this problem too quite recently. I've found > an explanation for this, however I didn't investigate any further. > > I booted the laptop with the small battery. During boot-up I decided > to switch to the big battery, so I switched batteries. When I fired up > kde: the battery plasmoid thinks I have two batteries WTF? > > Google told me that other people had a similar problem but in their > case the second battery was a real one from a wireless mouse. In this > case lshal showed the second (mouse) battery. HAL is where the > plasmoid gets the battery info from. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156078 > > So I checked with lshal, and sure enough, it showed two batteries. > IIRC the output of lshal suggested that hal still knew that the > batteries were different, but still it was showing the same percentage > for both the batteries. Once I get home I'll try again to reproduce > the problem. Maybe it's a problem in HAL (or HAL + laptop oddities) > and not in the battery plasmoid. > > Maybe you can check what lshal reports on your machine and if it makes > any sense at all? > > Cheers, > > Andreas > _______________________________________________ > fedora-kde mailing list > fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde > >
