Battery monitor

[Gelsenbury]

The battery monitor widget in Mageia 1 seems to have problems.

(1) When left-clicking on the battery monitor, the panel that appears doesn't look right and isn't useful for functionality (see attachment)

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(2) Earlier today, I had a notification saying that I was low on battery power, when the battery monitor still showed 89%. Perhaps there is an issue with updating the charge level, but I haven't tried this again yet.

BTW: When I left-click on the Notification widget, I also get similarly useless bars as in the screenshot. Perhaps this is something about several widgets.

[mikala]

Do you use a specific theme ?

[Akien]

For the graphical issue: it is possible that your don't have the proper driver for your video card (especially if it's an old one, like an ATI Mobily Radeon or whatever – that's my case). To see if that is the problem, try to disable the desktop effects (such as transparency and the 3D effects). You can find these options in the Mageia Control Centre.

[Gelsenbury]

Do you use a specific theme ?

Merci de votre assistance!

That was the solution. I use Eleonora as a theme. I simply went to the KDE control centre, selected another theme, then re-selected Eleonora. Now the battery monitor widget is usable (although it still looks large). Perhaps this wouldn't have happened with a fresh install; some stale settings from Mandriva 2010.2 maybe.

[Gelsenbury]

Ah ... no, that wasn't the solution.

The old problem is back after a restart of the KDE desktop. This must be a bug. I'll experiment with different themes to see if the problem is with Eleonora or with something more fundamental.

[Gelsenbury]

OK, the issue seems to be with Eleonora specifically. That's a shame because it's my favourite theme by far. Most of the other transparent themes have this obsession with dark glass ... what's so big about dark glass?

[ahmad]

OK, the issue seems to be with Eleonora specifically. That's a shame because it's my favourite theme by far. Most of the other transparent themes have this obsession with dark glass ... what's so big about dark glass? :D

A shot in the dark, try disabling the Blur effect from systemsettings -> Desktop Effects.

[doktor5000]

You can also try to cutomize another theme, so it uses all of Eleonoras styles except for the Plasmoids.
In "systemsettings" under Workspace Appearance -> Workspace Design -> Details tab you can
set a specific theme for the most important elements, so select a working theme beforehand,
then set everythin to Eleonora except maybe Plasmoid Background.

Don't know about the exact translations, as i use german KDE. But i hope you get what i mean.

[Gelsenbury]

Thank you for the help. For the moment, I have found a nice theme called Krandiose, which I quite like. When I have time, I'll try your recommendations.

PS: The Blur effect is disabled, so I still suspect a bug in Eleonora.