wmvolt

An eye-candy dockapp to monitor Linux ACPI battery status.

• Uses a "new" /sys/class/power_supply/* interface).
• Multiple batteries support.
• Custom backlight colors.
• An alert hook.
• FVWM3 support (via FvwmButtons or as a standalone app).

Installation

You'll need pkg-config, libXpm-devel, libXext-devel & asciidoc.

$ make install

(The rpm spec is here.)

News

• 0.0.2

  • Add -L option for a different backlight color when ac power is off.
  • Fix the ac power indicator.

Credits

Big thanks to Thomas Nemeth for wmapmload, from which wmvolt borrows the GUI code.

License

GPLv2+.