Re: [dwm] Proper way of monitoring battery level in DWM

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:49:17PM -0700, Amit wrote:

> I've tried modifying the .xinitrc to contain the battery percentage
> level from apm but I cannot seem to get it. What is the proper way
> to do this?

I use this script:
http://oni.tomodachi.de/~mitch/tmp/battery.pl

Call it with -s to get a one line output suitable for dwm.
It works with ACPI instead of APM though.

Regards,
Christian

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