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sonofwatt

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Registered: 2013-08-29

Posts: 6

Brightness, Battery, Volume OSD options w/xbindkeys

I'm putting some polish on a X220 Thinkpad.  I'm running Awesome WM, and am using xbindkeys to handle the commands for the special keys.

I'd like to have an OSD notification (preferably with a horizontal bar graph) for when I change the Volume, Screen brightness, or want a detailed report of battery status (there is a battery button afterall).  I've shopped around a bit, but I haven't found much in the Official Repositories or AUR.  Something maintained the repositories would be nice so that I don't work in the future.

The stuff I've found so far won't fit well:
osdbattery: Seems to be broken for my system.  It's looking for the battery state in 'power_now', which doesn't exist.  I have 'energy_now', and its not that configurable.

tpb: Seems a little old: last updated in 2011.  I could probably get it to work, but it also seems like it would be doing a lot of the work that xbindkeys is already doing, and that could get messy... 

Custom Scripts:  There are a few forum posts with custom scripts that pass info to notify-osd and the like, but many of these posts are a bit old, and I would like to avoid the hassle of adapting and maintaining scripts like that. 

So, is there something that's hiding in the repositories and give me the functionality that I want?  Lightweight would be best, but I'd be willing to borrow some pieces from GNOME or XFCE to make it work.  Thanks for the help!

erykroom

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Registered: 2013-12-06

Posts: 25

Re: Brightness, Battery, Volume OSD options w/xbindkeys

Volnoti should do the trick. At least for volume and brightness notification.
Forum thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=132218
Package:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/volnoti/