On Tuesday 03 July 2018, dep wrote:
> i deeply apologize for having started this thread, which i foolishly
> thought might have something to do with tde.
>
> the early response, which also had to do with tde, was not seem correct for
> my system: right clicking the little pile of icons at the right in kicker
> did produce a menu, one item of which was to add an applet. but when
> clicked the list provived did not include kweather. nor, sadly, the little
> applet for monitoring battery level. as to the latter, which is more
> important to me, i did some poking around and got to the services manager
> but found no immediate way of starting klaptop or of adding it to the
> panel. kweather is a frippery, but battery level isn't.
>
> so at the risk of sparking another wild tangent, i ask: how might i get the
> laptop daemon and battery monitor to start at login and appear on kicker?
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> dep
>
I think what's you're looking for is the trinity-tdepowersave. You may want to 
install trinity-tdeutils which includes "klaptopdeamon" which is what I think 
you are looking for. Make sure you have all that installed, and it's a system 
tray item, not a applet.

Make sure you have the package for kweather installed too, which is 
trinity-kweather.

Kate