Recognizes second battery only after restarting it

[asdf]

Binary package hint: kde-guidance-powermanager

On a X61s the power manager applet does not show the second battery if I add it to the laptop. However if I restart X then it shows it correctly.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

g-p-m isn't capable of updating the number of batteries, while it is running. If you wan't it to show the second battery, you should just restart it. Close the power manager and start it using the command guidance-power-manager . This should be marked as wishlist.

[asdf (asdf123123-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Not sure what the gnome thing does with a second battery, but the user
normally expects to see correct information on the applet. So maybe
there should be some priority in fixing this, however I'm also not
sure how many people use laptops with a second battery..

[asdf (asdf123123-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

> g-p-m isn't capable of updating the number of batteries, while it is
> running.

From a technical point of view this is not a bug of course. But a user
will probably say that "it does not work properly"..

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Confirming and setting as wishlist according to awen's comment.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Guidance Power Manager has been removed from Kubuntu 10.04 and onwards since it is unmaintained. Unfortunately, this means that no new features or bugfixes will be made.