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[brad_chuck]

UPDATE Feb 26 2007

In addition to the regular batmon script I added a totally redone program( batmon-0.1.0 ). This uses GINS to have a GTK 2 look to it. This also changes color ( green to yellow to red )

Just for testers





This is a dotpup for batmon.

batmon is a simple program that shows the status of your battery in the taskbar of JWM. The dopup installs batmon and a script that sets it up for you.

To install just install the dotpup and click on the batmonsetup.sh script in the ROX window that pops up at the end. Then just restart JWM and your batmon should be in your JWM taskbar.

The setup script (batmonsetup.sh)

1. loads modules for your battery
2. Edits your init scripts so that the modules will be loaded at boot time
3. If you have a Toshiba laptop will install modules and set up LCD control script.
4. Adds the batmon program to the JWM task bar.

This dotpup should be rock solid but it may have bugs.

Below is a picture of what it should look like.

If added to the main distro the delivery method could be in the menu of freememapplet. There is also a picture of what this could look like. The dotpup does not edit freememapplet.

Please test!

[plinej]

all it did for me was put a "-%" with no number next to blinky. I currently have my laptop unplugged running off the battery. I have battery modprobed and can see my charge left with wmpower.

[plinej]

I see why too. You're batmon.sh is looking for BAT1 but mine is BAT0.

[brad_chuck]

Thanks. I almost added some code to deal with that but did not.

I will go back and fix it.

do you have /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ADP1/state or /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ADP0/state ?

More Testers?

[plinej]

nope, this works though:

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#!/bin/sh

cd /proc/acpi/battery/
for a in `ls`
do
rc="`cat /proc/acpi/battery/$a/state | grep "remaining capacity:" | sed -n 's/remaining capacity: //p' | sed -n 's/ mWh//p'`"
cap="`cat /proc/acpi/battery/$a/info | grep "last full cap" | sed -n 's/last full capacity: //p' | sed -n 's/ mWh//p'`"
done
cd /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/
for a in `ls`
do
let "per=(($rc*100)/($cap))"
if [ "`cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/$a/state | grep "on-line"`" == "" ]; then
acon="-"
else
acon="+"
fi
done
echo -n "${acon}${per}%"

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you'll need to enter the following commands

modprobe battery
modprobe ac
batmon.sh

[plinej]

BTW, I don't have ADP0 or ADP1, I have AC.

My revision on your script would obviously only take the first directory in `ls` but you should only have one anyway right?

[plinej]

Whoops, had the wrong directory for the 2nd part of your script but I revised my post to correct that.

[brad_chuck]

Yeah I caught it.. This edit works for me so I updated the file on the main post.

[plinej]

It's still the same file for download.

Okay, now it's fixed. Thanks alot for this!

[brad_chuck]

Updated the file for download.

Now black on green. Easy to read.

Also added picture.

[BarryK]

This is great!
Just a thought, you don't have to do it -- why not combine with freememapplet
and share the same display, flip between the two every few seconds. Maybe you could even combine the Bash script to return both informations. This would be
one less background daemon polling and taking up cpu time.

Note, MU has a modified version of freememapplet that ...well, I can't
remember exactly but it doesn't display a normal window, enables display
of a more compact window that is less than the full height of the taskbar.
But there were problems I think with how it has to be entered into .jwmrc.
...anyway, MU can give further details!

[JB4x4]

Great little program, one thing though..

The battery in my laptop lists capacity as "mAh" instead of "mWh". I had to change the script accordingly to have it read. Would there be way to add this into the script?

[JB4x4]

double post

[MU]

[plinej]

I made a dotpup that includes a pre-install script that writes the necessary lines to your .jwmrc-tray file (it greps for batmon first and if it finds that than it exits). I modified the batmon.sh script again so it should work for JB4x4. After installing the dotpup you of course need to restart JWM to see batmon in your dotpup menu. Click on it and it will automatically modprobe battery & ac and start batmon. You'll then need to restart JWM again to see the percentage in your taskbar.

Thanks again brad, I've been wanting something like this for jwm.

I removed this dotpup because Brad updated the package.