Gkrellm-PMU Reincarnation of the PMU Plugin for Gkrellm 2.x

GKrellm-PMU creates a battery display for Apple Powerbook without using APM frontends, which tend to be less verbose.

The original Gkrellm-PMU Plugin was written by Joseph Palani Garcia. The last version he published was version 1.4 in 2001. Unfortunately it seemed that he stopped development and did't ported Gkrellm-PMU to Gkrellm 2.x and GTK+ 2.x. Because I used Gkrellm-PMU for a long time and wanted to use it further on, I took the source and updated and cleaned it up to be up to the mark.

The old Version 1.4 is still available at www.lycestra.com

The originally source was difficult to understand for me. The first try to port it to Gkrellm 2 according the gkrellm plugin porting guide failed. I can't find the cause so I choose the easier way to reimplement it from scratch using the original source as guide. Some of the changes are:

• Gkrellm-PMU doesn't use pmud anymore. It get its input only from the kernel through /proc/pmu.
• The APM support was removed because gkrellm has a built-in APM-plugin
• The direct reading of the pmu was removed because do it through the kernel is the better way. As result the new Gkrellm-PMU plugin needs Kernel 2.4 or later and only supports data exported to /proc/pmu/*.

Legal notice

Copyright 2003-2006 Matthias Grimm.
Copyright 2001 Joseph Palani Garcia

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

If you don't have a copy of the GNU General Public License write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Credits

Thanks to Joseph Palani Garcia for his wonderfull program.