On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:59 AM, ilf <i...@zeromail.org> wrote: > I have done this the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | shell way for years and > found it to be way more resource intense then calling acpi -b. > > Let's face it, the Shell/Perl/Python/whatever scripting is relatively easy, > but very inefficient.
I update my status bar every 50 seconds. I sacrifice, for this, approximately thirty seconds of battery life on a battery that lasts on the order of seven hours to a charge. I'm not particularly concerned by this 'inefficiency,' to be honest. -- # Kurt H Maier
