[SOLVED] No LXDE Battery Monitor

I just made a fresh Arch install (with [testing]) on a netbook today, with LXDE as the DE.
Everything seems to be running fine just now, but there is one slight problem (which is actually quite important): There is no battery monitor anywhere, not even in the "Add / Remove Panel Items" menu. I tried plugging into a power source, and running without plugging it in, neither worked.
I have researched a little but everybody seems to have that monitor ready for them, or they have it in the add panel items menu.
What can I do about this?
Last edited by Majorix (2013-01-16 14:00:43)

I have learned that lxpanel keeps its user-based settings in ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/panel . Knowing that my Debian LXDE installation had the battery monitor, I switched over there, and checked that file. It contained these suspicious lines:
Plugin {
type = batt
I came back to Arch, added this to my configuration, rebooted, and bam! It's there!
It is really weird that I couldn't add it via the GUI, but the terminal always serves
Last edited by Majorix (2013-01-16 14:00:59)

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