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[EN] SOLVED. LXQT Battery Indicator does not appear on panel ??
dibl:
I am normally a KDE/Plasma desktop user, so ......
An old laptop in good condition fell into my hands, but only 1G of memory, dead battery, and ancient hdd. I spent $100 USD and got a new battery, an 8G DIMM, and a 125G SSD and now it works pretty well for a little over 2 hours, until the battery is discharged. I installed LxQt "Giants" on it. Here is the system:
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Kernel: 6.6.4-1-siduction-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: LXQt v: 1.3.0
Distro: siduction 2023.1.1 giants - lxqt - (202309091910)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: Presario CQ56 Notebook PC
v: 058D100002242810010620100 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1604 v: 88.17 serial: <superuser required>
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.18 date: 04/18/2011
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 37.3 Wh (76.6%) condition: 48.7/48.7 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 11.5 min: 11.1
CPU:
Info: single core model: AMD V140 bits: 64 type: UP cache: L2: 512 KiB
Speed (MHz): 800 min/max: 800/2300 core: 1: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250] driver: radeon v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.9 driver: X: loaded: radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,r600,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 3.3 compat-v: 3.0 vendor: mesa v: 23.2.1-1 renderer: AMD
RS880 (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.6.4-1-siduction-amd64 LLVM 16.0.6)
Audio:
Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.6.4-1-siduction-amd64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 8.22 GiB (7.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SQ500S37120G size: 111.79 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 46.95 GiB used: 6.54 GiB (13.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
ID-2: /boot size: 1007.9 MiB used: 180.4 MiB (17.9%) fs: ext2
dev: /dev/sda3
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 4 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
ID-4: /home size: 53.12 GiB used: 1.51 GiB (2.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 59.4 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Processes: 141 Uptime: 0m Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est.
available: 7.52 GiB used: 711.5 MiB (9.2%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.31
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I have played with the LxQt configuration settings, including power management. There are 3 lovely battery display options, and I have checked the boxes to enable the battery monitor and to have the icon displayed. I have tried all the icons. Nothing appears on the panel. I played with panel configurations but no help there. I suspect a bug, but maybe I am the bug ....
Does anyone know anything about this issue?
(I should have gotten Alf Gaida's phone number!)
eriefisher:
It's been a while since I was using LXQT but as I remember it's similar to Xfce4. First you have the status notifier on the panel then the power manager sits in the tray. Like I said this is all from memory.
I liked LXQT for the most part but found it really disconnected in some aspects. I reported some faulty behavior of the nm-applet on github as a bug and the response was a link to the source code. After finding a bunch of little things frustratingly buggy I left it behind. I think it could become a great alternative but it's not there yet.
dibl:
--- Quote from: eriefisher on 2023/12/07, 23:06:09 --- I think it could become a great alternative but it's not there yet.
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LOL! Perhaps "light weight" is another way to say "incomplete"!
I've used it on ancient laptops for a long while. The last old Dell from about 2009 ran LxQt for many years with no problem, but it died before this last version came out. Basically I'm just using these for browser appliances in the bedroom. This new LxQt that came with Giants actually is pretty satisfactory in all other ways. I'm not a fan of the so-called "desktop" launchers -- I prefer a clean desktop screen and the frequently used packages parked on the task manager, and that works perfectly. Connman is fully functional, if kind of complicated. Partitioning the SSD was a bit tricky, but that's not on LxQt.
On the old Dell I had a Plank launcher at the top of the screen, but I don't think I need to bother with that since this setup is working perfectly from the task manager on the panel. I guess I'll just have to set a stopwatch to 2 hours, 10 minutes and then shut it down,
mdmarmer:
LXQt does not have a battery monitor widget/icon. If you have the Status Notifier and System Tray widgets on your LXQt panel and you have the LXQt PowerManagement settings checked, the battery status should be displayed when the battery level is at or lower than your percentage setting in PowerManagement. I haven't tested this -- right now my laptop is showing only bluetooth status and removable media so there may be another step that I'm missing. (I'm running on AC power so that the battery is almost fully charged).
dibl:
Thanks, @mdmarmer!
--- Quote ---I haven't tested this --
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I have tested it. The laptop just dies -- after 2+ hours, the screen goes black, white cursor blinks for some further time -- I haven't waited until the rest of the system shuts down. At that point, I can still use Alt-PrtSn-RSEIUB to shut it down the rest of the way.
I noticed there is a "showIcon=true" line in ~./config/lxqt/lxqt-powermanagement.conf, but that line is not in /etc/xdg/lxqt/lxqt-powermanagement.conf. I added it there, but it makes no difference.
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