Re: battery monitor with KDE 64 bit

Lars Engels wrote:
> Quoting Lars Engels <[email protected]>:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:17:37PM +0200, martinko wrote:
>>> Lars Engels wrote:
>>> >Quoting martinko <[email protected]>:
>>> >>Hi Lars,
>>> >>
>>> >>sysutils/nbosd looks very nice and rather useful, thanks! :-)
>>> >>
>>> >>However, I can think of the following:
>>> >>
>>> >>There are 2 important/interesting information missing:
>>> >>- remaining run-time in hours:minutes when running on battery
>>> >>- CPU temperature (especially on laptops)
>>> >
>>> >Good idea, it should be no problem to use sysctl to get those values.
>>> >
>>> >>Also, it might be quite useful to render battery related info in red
>>> >>colour once battery charge drops below some (configurable) limit when
>>> >>not running on AC power.
>>> >>
>>> >>The last but not least important is this -- nbosd shows you info on
>>> >>demand only.  I find that most often I forget about my battery 
>>> running
>>> >>flat and thus nbosd wouldn't help.  Any idea how to deal with it ?
>>> >
>>> >nbosd was designed to show the value on demand. I have a keyboard  
>>> shortcut which shows me the
>>> >OSD whenever I need it.
>>> >But the shortcut doesn't work in every case e.g. when playing  
>>> fullscreen games. So I taught
>>> >nbosd to work together with devd and now nbosd has an option to  
>>> run as a daemon and only shows
>>> >up when the battery percentage falls below a user-defined value.
>>> >It still has some rough corners and the code needs to be cleaned  
>>> up that's why I haven't
>>> >committed the new version.
>>> >I hope that my (very limited atm :-( ) time allows me get it  
>>> finished, soon.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Hi Lars,
>>>
>>> Remaining run-time (hours:minutes) could be next to the percentage 
>>> value.
>>> I'm not sure about the temperature, though.
>>>
>>> I've set up a keyboard shotcut too (in WMaker) and it works great.
>>> However, sometimes I forget I'm running on battery and only find  
>>> out when my laptop dies
>>> abruptly.  That's why I'm trying to figure out how best to prevent  
>>> such situations.
>>>
>>> And what do you say about my suggestion to render battery life text 
>>>  and graphics in red when
>>> running on DC and too low ?  Would it be possible ?
>>
>>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> somehow I didn't see you mail until now...
>> I just worked a bit on nbosd and it should fulfill your needs now:
>> A -d switch was added to run it as a daemon. You can give it an alarm
>> threshold with -a and the osd will pop up (in red ;-) ) when the current
>> battery level is below that threshold.
>> Additionally the remaining battery time is displayed.
>> I haven't committed the new version yet. I'd like to have one or two
>> testers before:
>> http://bsd-geek.de/FreeBSD/distfiles/nbosd-0.5.0.tar.gz
>>
>> So if you would like to try it, please give a feedback on it.
>>
>> Lars
>
> I updated the port to the last version. Have fun :)
>

Hi Lars,

I've been on holiday but I'll upgrade and try the new version soon..

Cheers,

M.
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