PowerNot

Power notification tool for i3 window manager.

Configuration

You can configure some settings by manually editing the powernot file.

Modes

There is 4 modes in powernot.

• Charging Mode
• Discharging Mode
  • Safe Mode
  • Danger Mode
  • Critical Mode

This mode switches handling with percentage of remaining battery.

SAFE=30
DANGER=15
CRITICAL=5

Timers

• TIMER (current timer depending on current battery state)
• CHARGING_TIMER (Charging timer)
• SAFE_TIMER (Discharging safe mode timer)
• DANGER_TIMER (Discharging danger mode timer)
• CRITICAL_TIMER (Discharging critical mode timer)

TIMER=5
CHARGING_TIMER=10
SAFE_TIMER=5
DANGER_TIMER=2
CRITICAL_TIMER=1

Every mode has different sleeping timers. You can change them by editing the powernot file.

CRITICAL_HIBERNATE

CRITICAL_HIBERNATE=1

Using powernot as a systemd service

Systemd's user mode can be used to autostart and run powernot in the background.

First, create a service file in ~/.config/systemd/user/powernot.service. Make sure to replace USERNAME with your actual username.

$ cat ~/.config/systemd/user/powernot.service
[Unit]
Description=powernot

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/USERNAME/git/powernot/powernot

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Enable the service if you want the service to be autostarted:

systemctl --user enable powernot.service

You can also manually start the service (if it has not been autostarted already):

systemctl --user start powernot.service

To check the current status of the service, run:

systemctl --user status powernot.service