shutdown when battery level is critical

bangkok_manouel · 2007-07-20 12:34:01

Hi,

What would be the easiest and simplest way to automatically shutdown my machine when the battery is too low.

Thanks in advance.

High|ander · 2007-07-20 13:21:47

install hibernate-scripts and powersaved

And then config them.

tom5760 · 2007-07-20 13:30:51

Well, I know that if you use Gnome, you can go to System->Preferences->Power Management, and there will be a setting for just that. If you are not using Gnome, I guess you could write a script that polls acpi every few minutes, and then calls poweroff when it gets low. Other than that, I'm not sure what you can do.

bangkok_manouel · 2007-07-20 14:52:10

Thank you very much to both of you for the replies.

High|ander, IIRC, powersaved is about to be deprecated (replaced by pm-utils) and even if hibernate is great, it will not work with any kernel. That's a good alternative to be considered anyway so thanks.

Tom5760, I'm trying openbox since few days (and already like it a lot) so the gnome feature won't do it for me.

Finally, just for the record, I've decided to give laptop-mode-tools a try.

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shutdown when battery level is critical

#2 2007-07-20 13:21:47

Re: shutdown when battery level is critical

#3 2007-07-20 13:30:51

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