Bug#294308: xfce4-battery-plugin: does not display -- error on startup

[Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li>]

Salut Paul!

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:10:20PM -0500, Paul Galbraith wrote:
> After adding the battery plugin to the panel, a space for it is
> displayed but nothing shows in the space.

You should see a rectangle which is thinner than it is tall.  Can you
right click on the space and see the context menu for the plugin?

Do you have ACPI/APM working in your kernel?

> Looking in .xsession-errors, the following error is logged when the
> battery monitor tries to startup:

> (xfce4-session:2911): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1911
> (gtk_widget_destroy): assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

Hmm, I'm not sure this is relevant.  Does it only happen when you add
it?

Simon

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