I asked recently about finding my KDE battery applet for my laptop. It
only shows up on my root desktop, not my main non-root user account.

I basically have a default Bluecurve-themed install of KDE. I've done
almost no customization of it (except moving around the icons on the
bottom left section of the menu bar, and possibly setting in some
applets that weren't there by default).

When logged in as root, to the far right of the bottom bar, I have a
clock applet. Going further left from that is an applet for shutting
down/locking the screen (two buttons, one on top of each other). Next
to that is my battery monitor over the Klipper applet button.

When (under my non-root user account) I boot up, the Klipper and
Klaptop icons are  missing. Checking under  Control Center > Power
Control, I find that the box is already checked for "Show Battery
Monitor".

Interestingly enough (maybe???) apm has setuid privs (which it 'needs'
to enable the suspend/standby automated shutdown features), but, it
doesn't show up under the root Control Center. When I log in as my
non-root user and check the Control Center, the configs for
suspend/standby show up as enabled.

Any suggestions on how to track this down would be appreciated. I
looked at GKrellM, but, I found it was too big and klunky for what I
want to accomplish. I just want a tiny icon to show my laptop's power
status (charging, charged and running on adapter power, running on
battery power with X time left, no battery but with adapter power).

The monitor battery monitor "used" to be there, but, it disappeared
one day and I didn't notice _exactly_ when it was.

Gwen

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