Displaying Battery Life

[Hong-Nan]

Before I begin let me state that I am running Ubuntu version Lucid Lynx.

I was wondering, on a laptop, how do you change the battery life from percents to hours/ minutes on my distro, if you can. I find the percentages to be annoying at best.

Please and thank you in advance. 4laugh  

[Sitwon]

It doesn't look like that's an option in gnome-power-management. You'd need to use a different battery monitor applet/utility to see the time remaining.  

[Gandolin]

I would try using acpi:

sudo apt-get install acpi

To run it type:

acpi

or, to see everything

acpi -V  

[Hong-Nan]

Gandolin

I would try using acpi:

sudo apt-get install acpi

To run it type:

acpi

or, to see everything

acpi -V

This should go in the terminal right?  

[Gandolin]

Yup. Maybe I'll use "$ " in the future to indicate that...