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TheZadok42

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Registered: 2018-03-05

Posts: 24

i3blocks won't show battery indicator

I'm using i3wm for a while now and I've installed i3blocks but for some reason, I can not make the battery indicator show anything.
i3blocks version:

 i3blocks 1.4 © 2014 Vivien Didelot and contributors 

i3wm version:

 i3 version 4.14.1 (2017-09-24) © 2009 Michael Stapelberg and contributors 

i3blocks config file: config file
battery script output (when started from terminal): output
What can I do?

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: i3blocks won't show battery indicator

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … /i3blocks/

Look at the optional dependencies

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: i3blocks won't show battery indicator

And you seem to run the script incorrectly when you try it in the terminal. It looks to be a perl script, so run it with perl or execute it directly, e.g. one of these:

$ perl the_script
$ ./the_script
$ /path/to/the_script

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TheZadok42

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Registered: 2018-03-05

Posts: 24

Re: i3blocks won't show battery indicator

I run the script with perl and this is the output