battery monitor with KDE 64 bit

[Lars Engels]

Quoting Lars Engels <lme at FreeBSD.org>:

> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:17:37PM +0200, martinko wrote:
>> Lars Engels wrote:
>> >Quoting martinko <gamato at users.sf.net>:
>> >>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 :)




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