Alert if battery is going empty

[Guillaume Pothier]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:02 PM, mark <markkicks at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Kishore <kitts.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday 16 Nov 2008 6:02:50 pm Hauke wrote:
>>> Hi Guys!
>>>
>>> Is there an option or program in KDE to get an alert, or beeep if the
>>> battery has only power for 5 minutes.
>>>
>>> Thaks for Help!
>>
>> Which version of KDE? Your options I think would kpowersave, guidance-power
>> and powerdevil. If you are on kde >= 4.1 i recommend powerdevil.
>
> i have fedora 10 raw hide kde 4.1.2
>
> there is no powerdevil feature.. how to install it?
>
> [mark at localhost ~]$ sudo yum install  powerdevil
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * fedora: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>  * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>  * rpmfusion-free: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>  * updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> No package powerdevil available.
> Nothing to do
> [mark at localhost ~]$ yum search powerdevil
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
> Warning: No matches found for: powerdevil
> No Matches found
> [mark at localhost ~]$ yum provides powerdevil
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
> Warning: 3.0.x versions of yum would erronously match against filenames.
>  You can use "*/powerdevil" and/or "*bin/powerdevil" to get that behaviour
> No Matches found
> [mark at localhost ~]$
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not 100% sure it's in 4.1.2, but you might want to check in System
settings, in the advanced tab, Power management. This is actually
powerdevil.
g
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