<sect1 id="batmon">
<sect1info>

<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Mike</firstname>
<surname>McBride</surname>
</author>
</authorgroup>

<date>01/02/2001</date>
<releaseinfo>1.00.00</releaseinfo>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>KControl</keyword>
<keyword>Batería</keyword>
<keyword>nivel</keyword>
</keywordset>
</sect1info>
<title>El panel de monitorización de baterías</title>
<note><para>Los módulos del portátil requieren la correcta instalación de los
módulos apm. Para más información vea la sección 
<link linkend="laptop">Información de portátiles</link>.</para></note>
<sect2 id="batmon-intro">
<title>Introducción</title>

<para>este panel controla si el icono del estado de las baterías aparece o no
en el panel de KDE.</para>

<para>Una vez habilitada a battery will appear in your docking bar as one of 3 icons -
a battery with a red X through it indicates that <abbrev>APM</abbrev> has not
been installed (in particular <filename>/proc/apm</filename> can't be
read).</para>

<para>The other two icons indicate the battery state - a small plug
with a bar beside it indictes your batteries are charging - the
height of the blue portion of the bar indicate how full your batteries are.
A small battery in the dock indicates you are running on batteries, the amount
of blue in the battery indicates how full your batteries are.</para>

<para>If you <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on the docked icon a pop-up
will tell you how much time you have left in minutes.</para>

<para>If you <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click you get a pop-up that lets
you put your laptop into suspend or standby modes - or to bring up the laptop
configuration widget.</para>


<para>All features of Battery are configured from the Setup dialog.</para>

</sect2>
<sect2 id="batmon-use">
<title>Use</title>

<para>The configuration window can be divided into 3 parts.</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Show Battery Monitor</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This controls whether or not the battery icon appears.  This is
disabled by default.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Poll</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This setting controls how often, in seconds, the battery is
updated. </para>
<para>The default is 20 seconds.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Icons</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>The battery monitor uses three icons to represent the three
states: No APM, Charging, and Not Charging. The icons shown are the "large"
icons. To select new ones, click on the buttons and a icon loader dialog will
pop up. </para>
<note><para>If you create your own icons - they will work with the battery
monitor - but be carefull.</para>
<para>All the exactly white pixels in the icon get filled by blue for the
battery meter - if you want some white looking pixels to stay choose a slightly
off-white or grey color for them.</para></note>
<para>The author does not claim to be a graphic artist and would love for
someone to donate some better looking icons to the cause.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect2>
<sect2 id="batmon-author">
<title>Sección de autores</title>
<para>Sección escrita por Paul Campbell <email>paul@taniwha.com</email></para>
<para>Convertida a Docbook por Mike McBride <email>mpmcbride7@yahoo.com</email></para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
