Module: battery

The battery module watches the state of a portable computer's battery charge, providing a bargraph readout of charge remaining. Normally, the bargraph uses a fixed 100% scale and a green bar. Below 30% charge, the bar is changed to yellow. Below 8%, the bar is changed to red and the default text changes to read 'battery low'.

Current platforms

Linux

Instances

single only

additional resources

lowbackground, lowforeground, lowlabel, midbackground, midforeground

Below 30%, the bar is reconfigured, by default using a yellow bar and the normal litforeground. 'midbackground' and 'midforeground' may be used to configure the colors. Similarly, below 8%, the bar normally turns red with white text. 'lowforeground' and 'lowbackground' configure these colors. Below 8%, the bar text is also changed; 'lowlabel' may set this text just as label sets the text for 8% and above.

Resource defaults

Resource defaults explicitly altered from the global defaults by this module:

label: battery
litbackground: #60c060
lowbackground: #ff4040
lowforeground: #ffffff
lowlabel: battery low
midbackground: #d0d060
midforeground: same as litforeground
order: 201
scalelenadj: 100
scalerefresh:10000
scalereturn:1
scalewidadj: 80

Possible enhancements

AC on/offline as well as charging status is also available from /proc/apm; battery should be enhanced to display these as well.

MGM will not get your whites whiter or your colors brighter. It will, however, sit there and look spiffy while sucking down a major honking wad of RAM.