08-17-2009
Mandriva/Gnome
I'm not experienced with Linux, so I wouldn't even consider anything too tricky. I also required OpenOffice and other similar tools, so that ruled out some others.
Ubuntu was a contender, and for a user like me there's much about it to like. But I wanted Linux for my Thinkpad X41 precisely because XP Pro was chewing a huge proportion of the battery life just booting up. To my dismay, altho' Ubuntu obviously boots a lot quicker than XP, total battery life was even worse.
I know, there are things you can do - but you have to want to do them. I wanted the laptop to work effectively with the least interference from me, that's all.
So when I discovered that Mandriva (with one small tweak - turning off Bluetooth at boot) could deliver c.25-30% longer battery life, it was an easy choice.
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XAPM(1) XAPM(1)
NAME
xapm - display Advanced Power Management (APM) BIOS information
SYNOPSIS
xapm [ ... ]
DESCRIPTION
xapm puts up an X window that displays the remaining battery life. The left side of the window contains a printed time or percentage; the
right side of the window contains a bar indicating the percentage. Clicking on the left side of the window will toggle the display between
time and percentage.
OPTIONS AND RESOURCES
In addition to standard Xt options, the following options are available:
-V Print the program version number and exit.
-highcolor color
The color of the bar when the battery percentage is above highvalue. Defaults to "green". (*highColor)
-lowcolor color
The color of the bar when the battery percentage is between lowvalue and highvalue. Defaults to "yellow". (*lowColor)
-criticalcolor color
The color of the bar when the battery percentage is below lowvalue. Defaults to "red". This color is also used to flash the
alphanumeric part of the display when the power status is critical. (*criticalCOlor)
-highvalue highvalue
Set highvalue. The default is 50. (*highValue)
-lowvalue lowvalue
Set lowvalue. The default is 10. (*lowValue)
-chargingcolor color
The color of the printed display when charging. The default is "blue". Use -foreground to change the color used when on battery
power. (*chargingColor)
-delay delay
Sets the number of seconds delay between each update. The default is 1. (*delay)
-percent
Display percentage on startup, instead of time remaining. (*percent, boolean)
-percentauto
Swap automatically between displaying percentage and displaying the time remaining. When on ac power, display percentage, when on
battery power, display the time remaining.
BUGS
There is no way to inhibit the alphanumeric display or the bar display. When the battery percentage is low, using a bright color to warn
you of impending doom may be futile because the bar is too short. Because of the form widget's desire to maintain proportions, dynamic
resizing of the window may not do what you want it to do.
FILES
/proc/apm
AUTHOR
This program was written by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program. The current maintainer is Avery Pennarun (apenwarr@worldvisions.ca).
SEE ALSO
apm(1), apmd(8).
January 2004 XAPM(1)