NAME¶
xbattbar —
show battery status in X
Window
SYNOPSIS¶
xbattbar |
[-a]
[-t
thickness]
[-p
interval]
[-I color]
[-O color]
[-i color]
[-o color]
[-c]
[-s
script-name]
[top | bottom
| left | right] |
DESCRIPTION¶
xbattbar shows the current (laptop) battery status in the X
window environment. Battery status is obtained through the APM kernel module.
The APM kernel module depends on your UNIX platform, therefore, consult your
documentation for its detail.
xbattbar shows its battery status in a simple bar indicator.
-a option makes the indicator window keep always on top of
your screen. The thickness of the indicator is 3 pixels in default and you can
set the thickness as a parameter of
-t option. This
indicator is appeared in the bottom of the display, as its default. The option
top, left, or
right
forces the status indicator to be at the top, left, and right of the display,
respectively. Though it's a default, you can also use
buttom
as the option.
In the case the AC line is on-line (plugged in), its color of the bar indicator
consists of "green" and "olive drab" portions. The
"green" portion shows its battery charging level. These colors can
be changed by
-I and
-O options. In the
other case (AC line is off-line), the "blue" portion of the bar
indicator shows the percentage of its remaining battery level. The color
conbination for the AC off-line case can be changed by
-i
and
-o options.
xbattbar trys to know its battery status in every 10 seconds
in default. This is achived by APM polling. If it is used with option
-c then ACPI polling will be used.
You can use your external script for check battery status. It must print two
lines to
STDOUT 'battery=value' and
'ac_line=on|off
-p option sets the polling interval in second.
If the mouse cursor enters in the status indicator, the diagnosis window appears
in the center of the display, which shows both AC line status and battery
remaining level. This diagnosis window disappears if the mouse cursor leaves
from the status indicator.
AUTHOR¶
Suguru Yamaguchi <suguru@wide.ad.jp>, Akira Kato <kato@wide.ad.jp>,
Noriyuki Shigechika <nazo@wide.ad.jp>, Dmitry E. Oboukhov
<unera@debian.org>