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wmbattery displays the status of your laptop's battery in a small icon. This
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includes if it is plugged in, if the battery is charging, how many minutes
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of battery life remain, battery life remaining (with both a percentage and a
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graph), and battery status (high - green, low - yellow, or critical - red).
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wmbattery is based on wmapm by Chris D. Faulhaber <jedgar@speck.ml.org>
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-- see the copyright file for more information.
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wmapm is a nice program - why have I modified it into wmbattery? Here are
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some improvements in wmbattery:
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- Improved icon layout. I crammed the same information into less space
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while making the icon more elegant and visually pleasing (IMHO).
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- Easier to drag onto dock.
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- It consumes a little less memory.
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- Uses only 10 colors.
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- You can run in on a different display via -d (broken in wmapm).
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- Support for getting battery status from the sonypi driver instead of APM,
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for some Sony laptops that do not have apm support.
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- ACPI support, including multiple battery support and battery charging
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completion countdown timer.
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- HAL support.
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- upower support.
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- Can make its own estimatess of time remaining or time until full
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charge, even if APM does not.
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Conversely, here are some reasons to stick with wmapm:
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- You like its look.
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- It has a neat rainbow-colored progress bar.
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- It has buttons to suspend the laptop and stuff.
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- It may be more actively and/or better maintained. Or not.
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Decide for yourself.
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Still, forking is evil, and if I was doing this all over again, I suppose
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I'd try to add theme support to wmamn so it could morph into wmbattery with
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a theme. Oh well.
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The homepage for wmbattery is <http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/wmbattery/>
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-- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
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