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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)

(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.

Do you use a specific theme ?

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.

mikala wrote: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.

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.

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?

Gelsenbury wrote: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.

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.

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.