On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:40:43 +0300 (EEST)
Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I was trying to create a package for xfce4-battery-plugin but I couldn't
> compile it on NetBSD 2.0F. So I should add NetBSD support for this
> nice plugin...
> 
> How can I read the current battery status using ACPI (and maybe APM)?
> Do we have any examples of this somewhere?

There is a patch in icewm, patch-ab, that does this for APM.

You can also look at the battstat gnome applet (from gnome2-applets).
I don't know if it works though...

Cheers

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