2 battery widget icons

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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.
>
> 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.

I can't reproduce the double battery icon anymore :-(

>
> Maybe you can check what lshal reports on your machine and if it makes
> any sense at all?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andreas
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