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sant527

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Registered: 2009-06-21

Posts: 273

laptop Battery

I am using a laptop and installed arch linux

I am using xfce4.

I want to know how can I see the how much battery (power) is remaining as the windows shows

Is there any way to do it

SImha

Magnu5

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From: Finland

Registered: 2009-02-21

Posts: 19

Re: laptop Battery

probably xfce4-battery-plugin

vi3dr0

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-03-22

Posts: 208

Re: laptop Battery

Take a look at showbatt. Great with some global shortcut (xbindkeys).

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EVRAMP

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-10-03

Posts: 173

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Re: laptop Battery

There is also xfce4-power-manager and gnome-power-manager with more functionality (and problems)

sant527

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Registered: 2009-06-21

Posts: 273

Re: laptop Battery

Take a look at showbatt. Great with some global shortcut (xbindkeys).

How to install.

I dont have command named showbatt

I tried pacman -Ss showbatt
but nothing was shown