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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Being alerted if the battery is running out...

while [[ `sed -n -e '/^remaining capacity/ {s_[^0-9]__g p '$'\n q}' /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state` -ge 250 ]] ;do sleep 5 ;done && ./go.sh

where go.sh starts a click-clock sound.

Yet, I feel there should be a smarter way.

kazuo

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From: São Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 413

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Re: Being alerted if the battery is running out...

Better to use acpi for that (acpi is created for things like this). I don't have a tutorial on hand for acpi but for battery a find this on google:
http://mindspill.net/computing/linux-no … rning.html

I don't remember if is possible to set what is considered low battery... I'm using noteo (search on this forum) for battery alert.

GERGE

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From: Turkey

Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 157

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Re: Being alerted if the battery is running out...

I am also using Noteo. It is good.