Sorry, I was vague in my original email: What I meant was, I'm aware that there
are ways of getting it off the command line; I'm mostly curious about getting
it on my desktop so it's easy to glance at. Would my best bet be running a
script like that in a particular xterm, and marking that xterm as sticky in
fvwm?On 2 Sep 2016 16:22, Raf Czlonka <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 11:46:27PM BST, Aioi Yuuko wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to wean myself off external packages as much as possible.
> > Is there a common, accepted way of viewing, for instance, battery
> > life, with only included programs?
>
> Hi Aioi,
>
> There's the already mentioned apm(8) (i.e. -l, -m options) or you
> could run something like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> sysctl -n hw.sensors.acpiac0.indicator0 \
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.watthour0 \
> hw.sensors.acpibat0.watthour3 | awk 'NR == 1 { ac = $1 }
> NR == 2 { full = $1 }
> NR == 3 { remaining = $1 }
> END { if ( ac == "On" )
> state = "charging"
> else
> state = "discharging"
> printf("%s %d%s %s%s\n", "Remaining battery life is",
> remaining/full*100, "% and it is", state, "\.") }'
>
> Regards,
>
> Raf
