Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:33:54 +0200 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: battery monitor with KDE 64 bit Message-ID: <20080407133354.djlrjmnm04ks0www@0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <47F8AD88.2010406@users.sf.net> References: <0319208F-8098-4EAA-B3DA-22C6FE1C02DD@langille.org> <20080326155507.wiubhspc04ok440g@0x20.net> <47F8AD88.2010406@users.sf.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Quoting martinko <gamato@users.sf.net>: > Lars Engels wrote: >> Quoting Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm running 7.0 amd64 with KDE 3.5 >>> >>> sysutils/klaptopdaemon works only on i386 >>> >>> What battery monitor software are you using? >> >> dbsd-battinfo from sysutils/desktopbsd-tools offers you a tray icon. >> sysutils/nbosd can show you battery info and cpu frequency on >> demand with and on screen display. >> >> >> Lars > > Hi Lars, > > sysutils/nbosd looks very nice and rather useful, thanks! :-) > > However, I can think of the following: > > There are 2 important/interesting information missing: > - remaining run-time in hours:minutes when running on battery > - CPU temperature (especially on laptops) Good idea, it should be no problem to use sysctl to get those values. > Also, it might be quite useful to render battery related info in red > colour once battery charge drops below some (configurable) limit when > not running on AC power. > > The last but not least important is this -- nbosd shows you info on > demand only. I find that most often I forget about my battery running > flat and thus nbosd wouldn't help. Any idea how to deal with it ? nbosd was designed to show the value on demand. I have a keyboard shortcut which shows me the OSD whenever I need it. But the shortcut doesn't work in every case e.g. when playing fullscreen games. So I taught nbosd to work together with devd and now nbosd has an option to run as a daemon and only shows up when the battery percentage falls below a user-defined value. It still has some rough corners and the code needs to be cleaned up that's why I haven't committed the new version. I hope that my (very limited atm :-( ) time allows me get it finished, soon. Lars [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBH+gaiKc512sD3afgRAncDAJ0Z/fkjtlLG+l1n80Len/64Kz5J/ACaAs/K YX8t1DQpKybw+7jX4dxIuAY= =HFLf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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