I haven't been here in over a year...no main reason, I guess I forgot about this site.
Anyway, I just got a Acer Aspire One netbook for my birthday Friday and recently installed Debian on it. I would like to know what do people use for a batter monitor on laptops?
Thnx.
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"We are Microsoft. Resistance is futile"
I've used wmbatteries - I liked it because it was simple and small. I don't know if it's still out there.
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
now there's 63,005 bugs in the code!!
Good recommendation
wmbatteries is dockapp for windowmaker,fluxbox,blackbox... and is based on wmacpiload. the dockapp provides information of up to 2 batteries at time,remaining battery time and also cpu temperature or current power consumption.
Kartook
I've decided to create my own, I've hacked together a script which calls acpi and filters the needed info from that output.
Don't worry Ma'am. We're university students, - We know what We're doing.
'Ruiat coelum, fiat voluntas tua.'Datalogi - en livsstil; Intet liv, ingen stil.
Just for fun I decided to fetch wmbatteries, it seems that it hasn't been touched since late 2003, and it is using the deprecated /proc/acpi/ files, which I dont see remaining in the kernel in the future.
So in the spirit of "what the heck" I' going to try and adapt it to the new kernelstructure.
Don't worry Ma'am. We're university students, - We know what We're doing.
'Ruiat coelum, fiat voluntas tua.'Datalogi - en livsstil; Intet liv, ingen stil.
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