Thanks for the pointer Tim, Tim München wrote: > daivd wolfson wrote: > >>I'm working on a laptop, and having had it switch itself off for want of >>a battery monitor I had a look at adding one to the Ksysguard applet, >>and now can't get it to work at all! The standalone application works >>fine, but having removed all the monitors, whenever I drag a new sensor >>to the applet I get a 'connection host - KDE panel' window. This already >>has the host set to 'localhost', and a series of connection options: >>ssh, rsh, daemon or custom command. I've tried each of these (but didn't >>add a command to custom) and each time I get a disconnected symbol in >>the graph and no info. The sensors tab in the prefernces menu for this >>non-working graph says there is an error, but gives no more information. >> > > > I had the same problem. It seemed that ksysguardd wasn't able to write a > lockfile to /var/lock, thus weren't able to start. > > I "solved" it by making the dir /var/lock world-writeable. If there's a better > solution, let me know - but this, at least, works. I've just given this a go, and still no luck. /var/lock contained only a subfolder called 'subsys', which contained a numer of files, but none apparently associted with sysguard. I've given full access to all thes files/folders and still have the same thing; ksysguard application works fine, but still no connection on the applet. Anyone got any other ideas please? Cheers, Dave PS I've now got a battery monitor from kde-utils-laptop, but now no system monitor! ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.