battery_daemon help

[BassMatt]

Hi,

I've noticed in your .zshrc there's a line for run battery_daemon, but no notifications are appearing on my system for when I get to low battery levels.

I found this script which seems to accomplish the intended purpose, but I was curious what you're using here?

[elenapan]

It was my own script that basically just checked the battery level every 30 seconds in a while loop, making sure to notify only once for low and critical status. However it was not very reliable (sometimes it didn't send any notifications for some reason) so I switched to xfce4-power-manager until I figure out a better solution.

I will probably implement this within Awesome itself, since my battery widget already periodically checks battery level.

[BassMatt]

Does xfce4-power-manager send you notifications and such?

[elenapan]

Yeah it sends them on plug/unplug/full/low/critical.

[mustaqimM]

Here's a better way that uses dbus signals, so you get notified almost instantly:
https://github.com/lexa/awesome_upower_battery

[elenapan]

Ended up implementing it within Awesome with acpi_listen for instant notifications and by checking battery level every 30 seconds for low/critical/full notifications.