From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 6 11:45:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64292106571F for ; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 11:45:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110598FC18 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 11:45:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JiSpy-00052T-9C for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:15:02 +0000 Received: from r5j117.net.upc.cz ([86.49.9.117]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:15:02 +0000 Received: from gamato by r5j117.net.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:15:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:01:28 +0200 Lines: 39 Message-ID: <47F8AD88.2010406@users.sf.net> References: <0319208F-8098-4EAA-B3DA-22C6FE1C02DD@langille.org> <20080326155507.wiubhspc04ok440g@0x20.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5j117.net.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080402 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 In-Reply-To: <20080326155507.wiubhspc04ok440g@0x20.net> Sender: news Subject: Re: battery monitor with KDE 64 bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:45:29 -0000 Lars Engels wrote: > Quoting Dan Langille : > >> 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) 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 ? Cheers, Martin