battery monitor with KDE 64 bit

[Ian Smith]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, mato wrote:
 > Ian Smith wrote:
[..]
 > > You may also like to have a look at sysutils/asapm which I've been using
 > > for years to good effect in KDE.  Despite the name, and the initial
 > > blurb in pkg_descr, it works fine (better, actually) with ACPI, as
 > > detailed in the manual.  It's also fully configurable regarding display
 > > colours etc, and if the remaining runtime isn't directly available, it
 > > can monitor state of charge over time to provide pretty good estimates,
 > > along with configurable setpoints for 'warning' and 'alarm' colours.  I
 > > can't say whether it works on amd64 though ..
 > >
 > > On later (i386) machines I tend to use gkrellm which includes CPU temp,
 > > speed and much more, but again I don't know if it works with amd64.

 > Ian, thanks! :-)

My pleasure Martin .. I've not heard of anyone else running it before :)

 > I've been using wmbsdbatt but it isn't configurable at all and often I 
 > just didn't notice my battery gone flat.  Now I've switched to asapm 
 > which provides better visual attention (battery turning red) and more 
 > importantly I could configure it to produce notifications via 
 > notify-send and xmessage, so it's unlikely I'll miss my battery running 
 > flat.  :-))

Yeah, good old-fashioned X configuration.  I use apmd notifications on
this old 300MHz 800x600 beast for also good old-fashioned /dev/speaker
tunes for battery warnings, but haven't yet explored xmessage - thanks. 

FWIW, I've also long used sysutils/ascpu as a 60sec visual load monitor,
matching asapm's 'look', res. size and low cpu usage.  At ~7days uptime:

 3680 smithi       8    0  2344K   448K nanslp  44:06  0.00%  0.00% asapm
 3681 smithi       8    0  2564K   448K nanslp  41:53  0.00%  0.00% ascpu
 3514 root        96    0  1280K   264K select  36:32  0.00%  0.00% moused

cheers, Ian