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1 2014 August 18 2.2
2 Remove VCS files from source.
4 Manpage installation location now follows Filesystem Hierarchy
5 Standards.
7 Rename acpi to wmacpi-cli to avoid conflict with the acpi binary
8 that ships with acpiclient (http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpiclient).
10 Allow additional flags to be appended to CFLAGS and/or LDFLAGS during
11 build.
13 Now maintained by the Window Maker Developers Team
14 <wmaker-dev@lists.windowmaker.org>.
16 Git repository:
17 git clone git://repo.or.cz/dockapps.git
19 2009 August 10 2.2rc5
20 Small Makefile fix to allow compiling on newer GCCs, supplied
21 Michael Shigorin of ALT Linux.
23 2008 November 14 2.2rc4
24 Change the way that we sleep/wait for activity, to use select
25 rather than a fixed-length sleep, supplied by Julien Blache of
26 Debian:
28 Hi,
30 The attached patch for wmacpi makes it use select() instead of
31 sleeping. It also adjusts the timeout of the select() call
32 depending on the blink & scroll options.
34 If scrolling is not activated, there's no reason to wake up
35 10x/sec. If blinking is activated, waking up once per second is
36 enough. If blinking is not activated, then we can wake up just to
37 update the data and we're fine.
39 With scrolling and blinking disabled, this saves a number of
40 wakeups and helps battery life. Unfortunately there's another
41 source of wakeups that's probably due to libdockapp that still
42 makes 6 wakeups/seconds (in another thread it seems).
44 With this patch wmacpi makes a best effort to match the sample
45 rate set by the user, but that's hardly an issue I think.
47 I haven't released this patch yet in Debian, so if you like it and
48 want to roll out a release, feel free :) Otherwise I'll add it to
49 the package soon.
51 Thanks,
53 JB.
56 2008 March 18 2.2rc3
57 Some fixes for the sysfs interface support, supplied by
58 jblache@debian.org:
60 > Okay, I finally found time to make a new release including this
61 > patch - 2.2rc2. It's up on my website now.
63 I don't remember sending you the updated patch, as it turned out that
64 you can have different attributes in sysfs depending on what the
65 battery reports.
67 The current version is attached.
69 Thanks,
71 JB.
74 2008 March 14 2.2rc2
75 Support for the sysfs interface that became mandatory with kernel
76 2.6.24 (patch supplied by jblache@debian.org).
78 A number of graphics fixes also from jblache@debian.org.
80 Removed support for hardware reported critical battery status.
82 2007 July 14 2.2rc1
83 Major changes to command line handling and to the way we use
84 libdockapp, courtesy of Patrice Dumas. This should hopefully fix
85 several long-standing bugs with non-wmaker window managers (in
86 particular Debian bugs #280495 and 293546).
88 Updated to support newer kernels that no longer support
89 /proc/acpi/info - thanks to Samuel Ortiz.
91 Fixed a longstanding issue with redrawing - thanks to Vito
92 Caputo.
94 This version changes a number of command line options (little used
95 ones, but they're still incompatible changes) due to the
96 libdockapp work. In particular, -w becomes -x, -v becomes -V (and
97 takes an argument rather than being repeated), and -V becomes -v
98 (thanks to libdockapp grabbing -h, -v and -w for itself). Also,
99 long options are now supported for everything in wmacpi (but not
100 acpi, since it doesn't use libdockapp for command line parsing).
102 2007 January 10 2.2a1
103 Added a patch from Patrice Dumas to support newer versions of
104 libdockapp.
106 Updated email address in AUTHORS and manpages.
108 2005 February 2 2.1
109 Finalised libdockapp-0.5.0 port - no changes from 2.1rc1.
111 2005 Jan 5 2.1rc1
112 Typo fix in the manpage.
114 Ported to libdockapp-0.5.0 - all this needed was changing the
115 type of the dockapp width and height to unsigned short.
117 2004 October 24 2.0
118 Upped version number to 2.0.
120 Small typo fixes.
122 wmacpi 2.0 goes gold . . .
124 2004 September 28 2.0rc1
125 Added support for switching to capacity mode automatically, on
126 detecting dodgy reports from the battery.
128 Added support for capacity mode on charging, with automatic
129 enabling as per discharging.
131 Various cleanups.
133 Hopefully last release before the final 2.0.
135 2004 August 18 1.99r7
136 Implemented the libdockapp port - this seems to close Debian bug
137 #227819, but it hasn't received sufficient testing.
139 Implemented a capacity mode for calculating time remaining (as
140 opposed to the normal current rate mode) - this mode samples the
141 remaining capacity of the battery and notes the time at which it
142 was sampled, and uses a history of samples to estimate the rate of
143 drain on the battery. From there it calculates a value for time
144 remaining.
146 Also, various cleanups have gone in:
148 * a reworking of the scrolling code
150 * generic battery number support (rather than just
151 using two pixmaps, one for b1 and one for b2)
153 * stopped the battery glyph from blinking when running on AC
155 2004 July 19 1.99r6
156 Fix for Debian bug #250792 - the parser for the acpi files was
157 too stupid to deal with error conditions. I've now added some
158 basic checking to make it handle the error that caused the bug
159 report, but I'll need to add more later.
161 2004 April 23 1.99r5
162 Collected fixes for the collected fixes below . . .
164 * Manpage fixes, to reflect the reality of the current code.
166 * Code cleanups, to make a few things more sensible. Most notably,
167 the interface for setting the samplerate has changed so that it's
168 no longer inverted and illogical - you now say how many times you
169 want to sample per minute.
171 * Fixed an issue with initialisation - I'd moved the power_init()
172 call below the options parsing code, without dealing with the -m
173 option properly. The end result was that if you told it to monitor
174 a battery number, it would fail saying the battery didn't exist. I
175 moved the check for this out of the options parsing and after the
176 power_init() call.
178 * Fixed a leaking file descriptor in init_ac_adapters.
180 * Implemented a way to handle changing batteries - reinitialise
181 the battery info periodically. I don't know of a better way to do
182 that, since we'd have to do all that parsing anyway to find out if
183 it had changed . . .
185 libdockapp is waiting, but I think that's the only change left
186 without more bug repots . . .
188 2004 April 15 1.99r4
189 Collected fixes for various small issues.
191 * Fixed a problem with placement of the window when using the
192 click to place mode - turned out to be a sizehints problem.
194 * Some fixes to the manpage.
196 * Reenabled the CLI build by default - the Debian patches can
197 handle disabling it themselves.
199 * Added a way to disable the scrolling message, since some users
200 find this annoying.
202 I've left the big changes that are needed (like using libdockapp,
203 in the hope that it'll solve the docking problems) until later, so
204 that I can get these smaller fixes out. Hopefully soon . . .
206 2004 January 12 1.99r3
207 . . . and a fix for a fix that didn't fix it . . .
209 2004 January 12 1.99r2
210 Some cleanups and bugfixes found by the wonderful Debian users.
212 It's finally in testing!
214 2003 November 23 1.99
215 Finally claimed the wmacpi name as my own . . .
217 Renamed wmacpi-ng and acpi-ng, renamed the header files, fixed up
218 the makefile.
220 For the Debian package, also made compilation of the command line
221 tool optional, defaulting to not building it. This is because
222 after the renaming, my acpi clashes with the acpi package that's
223 already in Debian. The command line functionality is now
224 accessible via the -w option to wmacpi.
226 This is wmacpi 1.99, so that I can have a release packaged and in
227 Debian before going to 2.0, so that any bugs that are left can be
228 found by all the extra users.
230 2003 September 26 0.99
231 Fix the last of the old wmacpi code oddities (specifically, the
232 APMInfo struct, which was a completely inappropriate name given we
233 no longer deal with APM, and because of the various code
234 refactoring).
236 I think this is probably as good as I can make it without getting
237 more feedback and the like, so I'm going to make this version
238 0.99, preliminary to either wmacpi-ng 1.0 or wmacpi 2.0 (depending
239 which direction I go with that).
241 2003 September 23 0.92
242 Fix a few more bugs, and include an option to allow the user to
243 specify how often to sample the ACPI data - some BIOSes disable
244 all interrupts while reading from the battery, which apparently
245 causes some interactivity issues. I have no idea why reading once
246 every three seconds (which is our default), but there've been some
247 complaints.
249 Also fixed acpi-ng to properly handle the -a option.
251 2003 August 6 0.91
252 Fix a problem I'm seeing with docking the app - if the window name
253 is set to "acpi" rather than "apm" it doesn't dock . . .
255 2003 July 16 0.90
256 Make the time display show '--:--' instead of '00:00' when the
257 time remaining is 0 - I think this is reasonable, since it'll only
258 get into this state when the present rate value is 0. This only
259 happens when the battery is fully charged and neither discharging
260 or charging, or when the battery is completely drained. In any of
261 these states the time remaining is of very little interest, so we
262 don't lose anything. We also get to handle the (sadly, very
263 common) case where the ACPI subsystem doesn't report sane values
264 for the things we depend on.
266 2003 July 11 0.50a2
267 Make the time display show nothing (as opposed to 00:00) when the
268 time remaining is unknown, as requested by Emma Jane Hogbin.
270 Respect the critical level specified on the command line, and add
271 a new message to differentiate between the command line critical
272 level and the critical state reported by the battery.
274 Speed up the message scrolling, so that there isn't quite such a
275 painful delay between repeats. Also, up the speed when the battery
276 is low, more when it's critical, and scroll continuously when it's
277 hardware critical.
279 Finally, add support for disabling the blinking power and battery
280 glyphs from the command line, as requested by Sebastian
281 Henschel. We still blink the battery glyph when the battery
282 reports hardware critical level - I think that's worth being a bit
283 annoying about.
285 Also, added an acpi-ng manpage.
287 2003 July 11 0.50a1
288 Properly fix the AC adapter issue - it's not much use adding the
289 infrastructure and then forgetting to fix the code that uses it.
291 Fix the time disiplay so that it doesn't try to display values
292 greater than 99:59, since the display area won't fit anything
293 beyond that.
295 2003 July 10 0.50a
296 Bugfixes, to handle two problems: the case where something like
297 the present rate or some such is "unknown" (reported initially by
298 Emma Jane Hogbin, and where the AC adapter is called something
299 other than "AC" (reported by Sebastian Henschel). This an 'a'
300 release because I can't test these myself . . .
302 2003 July 6 0.50
303 Finally got rid of that annoying button - that space now contains
304 a 'B 1' or 'B 2' (only those two at present, since I'm too lazy to
305 fix it so that the number is generic. It should work fine for
306 anyone who doesn't have a freakish system with more than two
307 batteries . . .)
309 A few more code cleanups.
311 2003 July 1 0.19
312 libacpi cleanups and reworking - we now handle the charging
313 battery case properly, it seems.
315 Also, some attempts to make error printing a bit cleaner; still a
316 long way to go on that, though . . .
318 2003 June 24 0.15
319 Removed process_plugin_timer(), since it was doing nothing useful
320 at all . . .
322 2003 June 23 0.14
323 Removed libapm.c - wmacpi-ng is specifically for ACPI, with no APM
324 support.
326 2003 June 23 0.13
327 Some more code cleanups, designed to move libacpi to more of a
328 library than something built into wmacpi-ng. This is useful with
329 the seperate programs, though at present it's not used much.
331 2003 June 21 0.12
332 Added a command line tool, acpi-ng to query battery status from
333 the command line.
335 2003 May 30 0.11
336 Implemented multiple battery support, and averaging of the samples
337 in an attempt to even out the jumpiness of the timer.
339 2003 May 30 0.10
340 More major code cleanups: in particular the handling of the power
341 panel and the message has been cleaned up so that it's actually
342 sane and clean.
344 Next step from here is to actually implement handling of multiple
345 batteries, so that if there's a fully charge second battery
346 available it reports the correct time remaining (based on the
347 present rate of power consumption and the sum of the two battery's
348 remaining capacities).
350 2003 May 29 0.3
351 Some major reworking of the internals, to help fix the handling of
352 multiple batteries and such things.
354 2003 May 26 0.2a
355 Code cleanups to fix various problems with corner cases.
357 2003 May 26 0.2
358 Added support for multiple batteries: I took the simple route of
359 displaying only one battery per instance - to do more I'd need to
360 hack with the display code, and I'm not ready for that yet.
362 Added a -m option to specify the battery number to monitor.
364 2003 May 26 0.1
365 Changed package completely, to support the new ACPI code as of
366 2.4.21-rc2.
368 Since this code hasn't been touched in more than a year, I figure
369 I might as well have a go at hacking on it . . .
371 -- Simon Fowler, <simon@dreamcraft.com.au>
373 2002 Feb 17 1.34
374 Updated ACPI statistics gathering code for the latest ACPI patch from
375 Intel. Now uses/checks for subsystem version 20020214+. Redone the version
376 check a little bit.
378 2001 Apr 29 1.33
379 Little fix to ACPI version check so that I don't have to make a new
380 version each time a new kernel comes out
382 2001 Mar 24 1.32
383 Split ACPI and APM portions in different source files
384 Added power_init() function - handles checking subsystem presence,
385 version, etc. Enumerates batteries in ACPI implementation
386 ACPI: Beginnings of multiple battery support - not fully implemented
387 ACPI: Get the battery ID from /proc/acpi/battery instead of hard-coding
388 it in - also helps with multi battery stuff
389 Added some stupid command line help
390 Added -c option to set critical battery alarm level. Defaults to
391 10 percent, and added -b option to make noise when this critical level
392 is reached
393 APM: Updated for critical alarm stuff
394 Made a 20 color "low" quality pixmap for machines running 8bit displays
395 Updated README with some stuff, made separate INSTALL file
397 2001 Mar 13 1.31
398 Update for intel ACPI release version 20010313
399 Minor updates for new /proc layout
401 2001 Mar 07 1.3
402 Update for intel ACPI release verion 20010302
403 Proc format changed a little bit, so updates were necessary.
404 Added a check for specific acpi subsystem version - since each
405 new version seems to have a new interface, better be safe than
406 sorry :)
407 As usual, please test and report to me.
409 This ONLY works with linux acpica 20010302. Download this version from
410 http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm - it's a
411 patch against 2.4.2
413 2001 Feb 28 1.21
414 Finally read through the ACPI specification. Hah, they had all my
415 questions answered :) Thus,
417 Confirmed remaining percentage formula (correct)
419 Now calculate "time remaining" according to the spec formula
421 Removed "battery load" hack since we now have "time remaining"
423 Fixed bug in display_percentage (10% didn't display right)
425 Released version 1.21
427 2001 Feb 23 1.2
428 Added support for ACPI. This is very untested, and not very clean.
429 This has been tested on machines with only ONE battery, and only
430 with kernel 2.4.2 (that's where ACPI started to work for me)
432 Added some hackery to do with ACPI. Check README.
434 Released 1.2
436 2001 Jan 16 1.1
437 Fixed all the stuff so that wmapm works as advertised:
438 Fixed dumb bug where after charging was done new message didn't scroll.
440 Added support for fucked APM bioses that display stuff wrong. (See
441 README to learn how to enable it. Obviously, it's disabled by default)
443 Reorganized apminfo structure and got rid of redundancy.
445 Reorganized acquire_apm_info. All APM data is processed there.
447 Fixed display_state to do the Right Thing.
449 Fixed red blinking button to actually blink on critical battery, and
450 to stop when it isn't critical anymore. I don't think it ever worked
451 right in 1.0.
453 Created ChangeLog.
455 Updated README.
457 Released 1.1.