looking for a lightweight battery applet for openbox

[markp1989]

title says it all, im looking for a small program that will just sit in the notification area of fbpanel and just tell me how much charge there is in the battery, any sugestions?


Thanks Markp1989

[notwen]

if none turn up, you could always consider a conky script to do this very thing. =]

[spupy]

Alas, i haven't found this kind of program. I'm still using gnome-power-manager. It is good because it has menu with suspend/hibernate and hibernates your laptop when the battery is critical.

[mips]

http://ph.ubuntuforums.com/showpost.php?p=5798851&postcount=26

The above post will probably solve your problem.

Not familiar with fbpanel.

Also look at noteo, lithium, xbat, ibam, wmapm, wmapmload, wmbattery, wmbatteries, wmacpiload-ac, conky

[markp1989]

thats almost what i wanted, just takes up more space then i hoped


id like it just to say "charging %" and "discharging %" with out the other stuff


see screen shot

[urukrama]

Also look at noteo

That is what I was going to suggest: http://bavardage.awardspace.com/noteo/

[markp1989]

thats almost what i wanted, just takes up more space then i hoped


id like it just to say "charging %" and "discharging %" with out the other stuff


see screen shot

sorted out , changed acpi -b to "acpi | cut -c17-31"
only problem is that it cuts the % sign of when running on battery power

so i wrote a small script to check if the batter is charging or discharging, then cut the acpi out put accordingly ,


#!/bin/bash
if acpi | grep -qw discharging; then
acpi | cut -c17-32
else
acpi | cut -c17-29
fi

i saved that file as .battery.sh

just added


Plugin {
type=genmon
config {
Command = ~./battery.sh
PollingTime = 10
TextSize= small
TextColor=black
}
}

to my fbpanel config