Subject: Re: ACPI and battery status
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/12/2004 11:16:21
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:34:01AM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> 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...
xbattbar is supposed to work with both APM and ACPI
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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