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brncmp

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Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 21

battery status?

Hello,

I have an asus eee 701 laptop.  The arch community has been great getting every thing to work.  Now I need "lite weight" way to monitor my battery life. 

I'm using openbox with stanalone tray. I would like to use the system tray and it should provide warnings on low power and maybe even shut down the unit.  I have tried several wm dock apps and none seem to work 100% (acpi doesn't provide time remanding). 

The closest thing to work is gnome-power-manager  but its seems to have alot of dependecies.

Thanks,
brncmp

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: battery status?

You can try out the new thing around: noteo.

EDIT: I don't know if it does all those things you want, but you can try to ask bavardage to implement them

Last edited by bender02 (2008-04-06 02:37:12)

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: battery status?

Why not use conky ?
Or if you want it in the system tray there is gnome-power-manager (may not be lightweight but try it)

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serrghi

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From: Bergen, NO

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 100

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Re: battery status?

I use conky, which works great.
Here's a snippet of my conkyrc, might give you an general idea of the usage:

Battery:$color ${if_existing /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status Discharging}$battery_percent% $battery_time${else}AC power${endif}

(you should ofcourse edit the directory line to what suits your laptop. this is for asus comp)

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dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: battery status?

yacpi is in AUR

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