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Re: a battery monitor

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Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> writes:
> So, yes, the program is more like a progress bar to be used by some kind
> of shell program.  Here's how I've been using it.  My system has this
> program called acpi, which gives me battery information:
>
> %acpi -b
> Battery 0: Charging, 91%, 00:18:43 until charged
>
> I run CWM, the calm window manager.  So from my ~/xinitrc, I run:
>
> while true; \
>   do acpi -b | awk '{printf("%d\n",$4)}' | tr -d '%,' && sleep 60; \
>   done | xbattery 220x40-0-0 &

This is a good idea!

X-Windows makes it a lot more trouble to write than it really ought to
be.  In theory, it ought to be doable in much less code, but X really
makes your life hard there.  (I haven’t tested the code, but I assume
you’re posting a working version, and the code looks fine at a glance,
so I'm sure it’s fine.)

Kragen

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a battery monitor Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-01 14:28 -0300
  Re: a battery monitor Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-02 00:52 -0300
    Re: a battery monitor Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-02 12:22 -0300
      Re: a battery monitor Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-11 16:58 -0300
  Re: a battery monitor Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-02 21:45 +0000
    Re: a battery monitor Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-03 12:34 +0800
      Re: a battery monitor Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2026-09-03 05:30 +0000
        Re: a battery monitor Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-03 21:24 +0000
          Re: a battery monitor Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2026-09-04 02:51 +0000
    Re: a battery monitor David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-09-03 09:28 +0200
      Re: a battery monitor boltar@caprica.universe - 2026-09-03 15:55 +0000
        Re: a battery monitor David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-09-04 09:07 +0200
          Re: a battery monitor Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-04 15:14 +0800
          Re: a battery monitor Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-04 05:32 -0600
          Re: a battery monitor scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-09-04 14:29 +0000
          Re: a battery monitor Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-04 23:17 +0800
            Re: a battery monitor boltar@caprica.universe - 2026-09-05 09:39 +0000
        Re: a battery monitor gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-09-04 12:05 +0000
  Re: a battery monitor Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-02 18:48 -0300

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