ACPI & YACPI (ncurses-based app)

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ACPI & YACPI (ncurses-based app)

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It should be available for Puppy and Dog users from standard repositories.

Typing acpi in terminal will show you battery status.

Options :
-b, --battery battery information
-i, --details show additional details if available:
- battery capacity information
- temperature trip points
-a, --ac-adapter ac adapter information
-t, --thermal thermal information
-c, --cooling cooling information
-V, --everything show every device, overrides above options
-s, --show-empty show non-operational devices
-f, --fahrenheit use fahrenheit as the temperature unit
-k, --kelvin use kelvin as the temperature unit
-d, --directory <dir> path to ACPI info (/sys/class resp. /proc/acpi)
-p, --proc use old proc interface instead of new sys interface
-h, --help display this help and exit
-v, --version output version information and exit

acpi is very useful on a laptop for distro deprived of an applet showing battery status, such as Dog-based OS.

I stumbled upon this how-to, so i add it for further reading : https://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/check ... -terminal/

YACPI is more informative than ACPI :
Yacpi is an acpi monitoring program for Linux. It displays various acpi information like battery status and ac status on notebooks. The main reason why i wrote this program is, because i don't like the acpi program, which is included in debian :) It displays things like battery status, ac status, cpu frequency, remaining battery/charge time, temperature... It also supports the use of more than one battery and can display them.
http://www.ngolde.de/yacpi.html dev website
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Bl ... with-yacpi review
Available in standard repositories (Debian testing has latest)

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