3 wmbattery \- dockable battery monitor
10 is a battery monitor. It is used to visually display the system's battery
14 can get battery information using upower, HAL, APM, ACPI, or
15 the SPIC controller in some Sony laptops.
17 is dockable using WindowMaker and AfterStep window managers; under
20 appears as a nicely-sized 64x64 application.
23 displays the status of your laptop's battery in a small icon. This
24 includes if it is plugged in, if the battery is charging, how many
25 minutes of battery life remain, battery life remaining (with both a
26 percentage and a graph), and battery status (high - green, low -
27 yellow, or critical - red).
28 .SH "ELEMENTS OF THE DISPLAY"
31 display consists of these elements:
34 The large dial at the top of the display shows battery life remaining.
37 The time display, right under and in the middle of the dial, shows how
38 many hours and minutes of battery life is estimated to remain at the
42 If ACPI is used and battery is charging, the time display will instead show
43 a countdown (starting with a minus sign) of how many hours and minutes it is
44 estimated to take until the battery is fully charged.
48 The small icon of a power cord plug, in the bottom left, tells if the
49 laptop is plugged into wall power. If so, it will be lit.
52 The lightning bolt icon, to the right of the plug, tells if the
53 battery is being charged. If so it will be lit and will connect the
57 The battery icon, to the right of the lighting bolt, shows the
58 percentage of battery time. If the battery is removed the icon will be
59 dimmed. If the computer is low on power the battery will turn yellow;
60 if the computer is critically low on power and about to die because of
65 Display list of command-line options.
68 Pause this many seconds between updates.
71 Use the designated X display.
74 Specify geometry. This specifies position, not size.
77 Display the given battery. Only of use with the HAL or ACPI interfaces on
78 systems with more than one battery. The default is to display the first
82 Set the percentage at which the battery is considered to be running low. By
83 default, this percentage is determined automaticall, and you shouldn't
84 need to set it. If you set this, you should probably also set the \-c
88 Set the percentage at which the battery is considered to be critically low.
89 By default, this percentage is determined automatically, and you shouldn't
90 need to set it. If you set this, you should probably also set the \-l
94 wmbattery contains code for estimating the time remaining before discharge,
95 and until full charge, and this code is used if no other source of this
96 informaton is available. This switch makes wmbattery use its time
97 estimation code even if some other estimate is available.
100 Ignore fluctuations less than the specified granularity percent when
101 estimating time. (Implies \-e)
104 Play the specified au file (by sending it to /dev/audio) when the battery
108 Execute the specified command when the battery is below critical. The
109 strings \fI%percent%\fR, \fI%minutes%\fR and \fI%seconds%\fR will be
110 translated into the appropriate values.
116 Disable dial graphic.
118 Start at 10% battery to execute 'echo' including status information:
120 wmbattery \-c 10 \-x "echo Status: %percent%% \- %minutes% minutes, %seconds% seconds left"
123 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>