Hi, On Friday 20 July 2012 12:31:08 Lars Engels wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:04:59AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I forget yesterday to share these two scripts: > > > > http://www.alogreentechnologies.com/freebsd/checkbattery > > > > checks the battery status of an X220 and shuts the machine down when the > > battery falls to 2% or below. > > > > The status is checked every minute. > > > > It calls the following script to shut the machine down: > > > > http://www.alogreentechnologies.com/freebsd/poweroff > > > > You must run the first script as root to enable it to power the machine off > > at the end. > > > > I found that the battery life of my machine was higher using a simple > > window manager like blackbox compared to things like GNOME or KDE. This > > might depend on the usage pattern. > > > > Erich > > Is it necessary to poll? Usually devd generates an event when the > battery status and/or percentage changes. Just read the events from > /var/run/devd.pipe. > this is a good idea. I did not like this solution either but did not get a better idea when I did it.
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