Battery monitor for LXDE in Arch Linux
Solution 1
try installing acpi, and running acpi -b :)
then you can put the data directly to the conky or something, using: acpi -b | sed -r 's/.*([0-9]{2,3}%).*/\1/'
Solution 2
The easiest way to get it is through acpi command as follows (note acpi may not be installed by default so use apt-get or yum command to install the same):
$ acpi -V
or from the /proc fs
[root@centos ~]# cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/*
alarm: unsupported
present: yes
design capacity: 50000 mWh
last full capacity: 50000 mWh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 10000 mV
design capacity warning: 100 mWh
design capacity low: 50 mWh
capacity granularity 1: 1 mWh
capacity granularity 2: 1 mWh
model number: 1
serial number: 0
battery type: VBOX
OEM info: innotek
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: charged
present rate: 0 mW
remaining capacity: 50000 mWh
present voltage: 10000 mV
[root@centos ~]#
Aside, I found this bug link which says lxpanel has got problems on Fedora with ACPI stack and it mucks the states. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561311
There is another utility on sourceforge.net called webattery , perhaps worth a try. and another one jupiterapp, a tray app http://www.jupiterapplet.org/
Solution 3
There are any number of tools to monitor your battery's state: you could install something like conky to display it on your desktop, or you could use ACPI, as described in the Arch Wiki.
The real issue you have is that if you do not understand, or are unwilling to try to resolve, the error messages when installing a simple application, then you are going to encounter far more difficult issues running Arch.
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j605
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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j605 almost 2 years
I have Arch Linux plus LXDE installed in my laptop. I want to know the status of the battery level. I tried to install
batterymon
, but got too many errors that I couldn't decipher.Is there any other way to monitor the battery level?
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j605 over 12 yearsits an hcl it was bought in 2008.
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Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' over 12 yearsIf you couldn't decipher these errors, all the more reason to copy-paste the error messages into your question and we'll decipher them for you.
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j605 over 12 yearsthis is the error file. pastebin.com/EcHKq65y
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j605 over 12 yearsIs there a tray app that will be more useful.
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jasonwryan over 12 yearsArch uses
pacman
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Nikhil Mulley over 12 yearsthis is seemingly fixed in fedora core 16, issue with lxde panel battery app.
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Nikhil Mulley over 12 yearsperhaps, use jupiter applet then. jupiterapplet.org
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j605 over 12 yearsinstalled webattery,but i guess it'll take time to install jupiter as writing pkgbuild is very new to me
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jasonwryan over 12 yearsThere is already a PKGBUILD in AUR: aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43821
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Nikhil Mulley over 12 yearsawesome..yippie!! my one more upvote for recommending jupiterapp ;-)