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Submitted by KenHayber on Sun, 2006-01-15 22:07
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Summary: 
a Battery Status Monitor Applet
Current stable version: 
006
Primary author(s): 
Ken Hayber, (based on work by Rds and Tilo Riemer)
Home page: 
http://code.google.com/p/rox-lithium
Downloads: 
http://code.google.com/p/rox-lithium/downloads/list

Lithium is a Panel Applet that displays an icon indicating the Charge/Discharge status of your laptop's battery. Status information is also displayed in a tooltip. Lithium will use libnotify for the power-level warnings if you have it installed (with python support).

Lithium is a rework of the Baroque applet written by Rds and Tilo Riemer. It is functionally almost the same as Baroque, but the UI has changed quite a lot.

Lithium also includes acpi.py and apm.py that are used by Baroque instead of requiring them to be downloaded separately. In addition, pmu.py was added to support PowerMac users (Me).

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Hi Im running ACPI on my

Submitted by Swanny (not verified) on Wed, 2006-03-01 23:19.

Hi

Im running ACPI on my laptop but when I drag Lithium to the panel when running on the battery it quits with a Divsion by Zero error

stack trace:-
acpi.py (line 524) estimated_life_time time=totalCapacity / totalRate

Varibles:- time =0 , totalCapacity = 3960, totalRate = 0

Thanks

swanny

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Strange. That shouldn't be

Submitted by KenHayber on Fri, 2006-03-03 05:22.

Strange. That shouldn't be possible (I assume you're on AC so discharge rate is zero). However in the interest of stability, I'll add a check for non-zero totalRate.

You can patch this easily enough:

if totalRate:
  time = totalCapacity / totalRate
else:
  time = totalCapacity
  #according to the comments this has 
  # no real meaning when charging.

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Hummm. Realised the reason

Submitted by swanny (not verified) on Fri, 2006-03-03 21:48.

Hummm. Realised the reason for the above 'Divide by Zero error'
-Looking in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state when running on battery the discharge rate is reported as zero !!!

Thus not lithiums fault!!! :-D

After applying the above patch the remaining time reported by lithium is now the remaining capacity in mA reported again in /acpi/battery/BAT1/state

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Woops didnt read your patch

Submitted by Swanny (not verified) on Fri, 2006-03-03 23:23.

Woops didnt read your patch, I now understand why the time remaing = remaining capacity :-S

LOL

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Lithium

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2007-08-27 14:30.

When I drag the icon to the panel I simply get "Applet quit without ever creating a widget!" and no explanation. Any ideas?

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