Hello,

I am sure there is. My G3 Lombardi will tell me when the battery is getting low, and I know I can go to a control panel, and enable the battery gauges on the menubar.

Not having a G4 laptop, I do not know what custom settings are available. I would look in the System Preferences control panels under Energy Saver and see what you come up with.

Christian

I have looked in every control panel I can find. Nothing it is annoying that I will be in the middle of something and the screen goes blank. GAME OVER



With my old iBook I would get a warning saying there is a few minutes of battery left. The new PowerBook just goes asleep.

After some extensive research I have determined this problem is specific to my install. So I found a fix it is called SlimBatteryMonitor. Here is some info.


"Takes up to 70% less space than Apple's monitor.
Monitors laptop batteries and many UPS batteries as well.
Select different views for when powered, charging or on battery.
Monitor can hide itself automatically when desired."

SlimBatteryMonitor (Disk Image)

You can ask it to display a warning at 25%, 15%, and 10%. Take a look at the developer’s site.

developer’s site

Anyway,
Bosdmeg

Thanks for posting your solution
I've been looking for something like that too

Hi,
Thanks for posting your solution (I had the same problem on my 12" G4 running 10.2.8). Did you figure out why there was no warning?

I don't actually know why the Mac warning never showed, but I have a theory. The slimbattery monitor should popup when I have 25 minutes of battery remaining. It pops up when I have about 25 second remaining. The Mac has already gone to sleep before it’s warning can be displayed. I believe it is a hardware issue because both of the battery meters use the same raw data. As far as I know it is limited to the 12� G4 867 MHz PowerBook.