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Bumblebee status

Piotr Miller edited this page Oct 21, 2018 · 8 revisions

Have you ever needed to know if your hybrid (Optimus) laptop is currently running Intel or Nvidia graphics? In GNOME there was an extension for that. Out of boredom I took a look at its code, which resulted in this short script. It simply reads the /proc/acpi/bbswitch file and displays appropriate icon. Of course you need Bumblebee installed.

bbswitch-status

Command:

~/tint2-executors/bbswitch-status.sh

Sample executor:

#-------------------------------------
# Executor 4
execp = new
execp_command = ~/tint2-executors/bbswitch-status.sh
execp_interval = 2
execp_has_icon = 1
execp_cache_icon = 1
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 0
execp_tooltip = 
execp_lclick_command = 
execp_rclick_command = 
execp_mclick_command = 
execp_uwheel_command = 
execp_dwheel_command = 
execp_font_color = #ffffff 100
execp_padding = 0 0
execp_background_id = 0
execp_centered = 1
execp_icon_w = 30
execp_icon_h = 30