Re: Gnome battery applet don't work with normal user account

[Sascha Petranka <sascha.petranka@e-7.com>]

Am Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:30:18 +0100 schrieb Mark Roach:

> On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 18:34 +0100, Sascha Petranka wrote:
>> ON my Notebook ASUS L8400B, I've installed Debian Sarge with Gnome 2.4
>> The Battery Applet works fine, when I'm logged in as root, but not with a
>> normal user account. Then the following Error message appears:
>> 
>> Can't access ACPI events in /var/run/acpid.socket!
>> 
>> Make sure the ACPI subsystem is working and
>> the acpid daemon is running.
>> 
>> There is no acpid runnig (in both scenarios) and the doesn't exists
>> in both situations.
> 
> Why don't you just install acpid?
> 
> -Mark


Hi,

I've installed the acpid but, it still doesn't work.
And there IS a file named /var/run/.acpid.socket

But why does it work with root. So think installing the acpid 
is not necessary...

Sascha