On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 05:02:07PM -0700, Aioi Yuuko wrote:
> 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:
> >
$ systat vm
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> > 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
>
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