KThinkBat - The Battery Monitor for the KDE-Kicker¶
Latest Stable Version is 0.2.9 .
KThinkBat is a laptop battery monitor for the KDE -Kicker written by Tobias Roeser. It is inspired by the "Battery Maximizer" included with IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads, but not limited to.
Although there are allready some battery monitor applications for the K-Desktop Environment, they ar mostly too small to realize the current battery charge at first blush. Additionally, KThinkBat shows the current power consumption of the laptop, brings support for a second battery and its layout is highly customizable.
Features of KThinkBat¶
- display of current battery fuel in percent and visual as gauge
- display of the current online/offline state
- display of the current power consumption in W (or A on Asus Laptops)
- display of the remaining battery powered running time and optionally remaining charging time
- batteries can be display separatelly or in an combined/summarized view
- complete customizable Layout including, positions, sizes, color, fonts, values
- translations into different languages: Bulgarian, Czech, English, German, Italian, Polish, Slowak, Spanish
Author¶
Tobias Roeser (le dot petit dot fou at web dot de)
License¶
KThinkBat is released under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.
Screenshots¶
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Download and Installation¶
Bug Reports, Feature Requests, Send Patches¶
Developer Information¶
- Post a Bug Report or a Feature Request
- Contribute to KThinkBat
- Translate KThinkBat
- List of Contributors
- List of public Releases
Links¶
- KThinkBat Blog
- Homepage of Tobias Roeser
- ThinkWiki: Good ressources for all ThinkPad users.
- Linux Kernel Driver for the ThinkPad SMAPI BIOS: tp_smapi
- K-Desktop Environment
- kde-apps.org: Collection of usefull KDE-Applications
- TuxMobil: Linux Laptop and Notebook Installation Survey for Lenovo (former IBM)
- Gentoo Forums: one of the best Linux (and of course Gentoo) related forums