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Why lowbat?</a></li> - <li><a href="#orgf2afc19">2. History of lowbat</a></li> - <li><a href="#org89620d6">3. How it works</a> - <ul> - <li><a href="#org6b0c50b">3.1. libnotify lowbat</a></li> - <li><a href="#orgbd041b0">3.2. espeak lowbat</a></li> - <li><a href="#org3a44c6a">3.3. unknown lowbat</a></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li><a href="#org4bfb234">4. Links to lowbat</a></li> - </ul> - </div> - </div> - - <div id="outline-container-orgfe852df" class="outline-2"> - <h2 id="orgfe852df"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Why lowbat?</h2> - <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1"> - <p> - I've been using minimalist OS installations for work, personnal computing - and playing video games for a while now. I used <a href="https://www.archlinux.org/" target="_blank">Arch Linux</a>, I still use - <a href="https://gentoo.org/" target="_blank">Gentoo Linux</a> - which is by far my favorite Linux distribution - as a desktop - OS, and now I am using <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/" target="_blank">FreeBSD</a> on my workstation. - </p> - - <p> - Those operating systems and distributions basically come with a kernel, - coreutils, a shell and that's pretty much it. Everything else has to be - installed manually. I love this philosophy, the simplicity behind it and the - fact that you know exactly what's on your system at any moment. - </p> - - <p> - As window managers, I used <a href="http://dwm.suckless.org/" target="_blank">dwm</a> for a while, and I am now using <a href="https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm" target="_blank">bspwm</a>. They - are ultra-fast, very lightweight and do not bring extra bloatware to my systems. - I do not use a status bar as well, I like my applications to use the full screen - space available. - </p> - - <p> - A big problem for me with this setup for me was that they do not come with some - kind of warning or notification system, like fancier desktop environments would, - when my laptop battery is low. That also was before I started using <b>Emacs</b>, - discovering the battery level indicator in the modeline. Ultimatly the - frustration was too important when the computer kept shutting down in - the middle of important work too many time. Then I decided to create <b>lowbat</b> - to cure this issue. - </p> - </div> - </div> - - <div id="outline-container-orgf2afc19" class="outline-2"> - <h2 id="orgf2afc19"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> History of lowbat</h2> - <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2"> - <p> - It started as a very short <code>dash</code> shell (get <a href="https://github.com/tklauser/dash" target="_blank">dash</a> here) script that was - working fine but I wanted to experiment a little bit with this. It turned into - a <code>C++</code> program, which is still the case for the GNU/Linux version. - Switching to FreeBSD, I exerimented again by turning it into an - <code>x64 assembly</code> program, following the <b>Intel</b> syntax. In that way <b>lowbat</b> is - even more lightweight and consumes less battery power. - These days, I am rewriting it in the <b>AT&T</b> syntax. - </p> - </div> - </div> - - <div id="outline-container-org89620d6" class="outline-2"> - <h2 id="org89620d6"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> How it works</h2> - <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3"> - </div> - <div id="outline-container-org6b0c50b" class="outline-3"> - <h3 id="org6b0c50b"><span class="section-number-3">3.1</span> libnotify lowbat</h3> - <div class="outline-text-3" id="text-3-1"> - <p> - The principle of <b>lowbat</b> is rather simple. When it's running in the - background, it checks every 4 minutes whether your battery is above 15%. - If that is the case, it sleeps for another 4 minutes. When your battery runs - bellow 15%, <b>lowbat</b> checks your battery level every 20 seconds as well as - sending you a <b>notification</b> using <code>libnotify</code>. You can display live - notifications on your desktop using <code>dunst</code> for example, as well as many - other I'm sure. - </p> - - - <div id="org89a6eb3" class="figure"> - <p><img src="../img/projects/lowbat-01.jpg" alt="lowbat-01.jpg" /> - </p> - <p><span class="figure-number">Figure 1: </span>A notification generated by lowbat, displayed by dunst</p> - </div> - </div> - </div> - - <div id="outline-container-orgbd041b0" class="outline-3"> - <h3 id="orgbd041b0"><span class="section-number-3">3.2</span> espeak lowbat</h3> - <div class="outline-text-3" id="text-3-2"> - <p> - <b>lowbat</b> also has an option to send a custom voice message to the use - using <code>espeak</code>. Very handy if you are not in front of your computer or - if you want to bring joy to this dramatic event. - </p> - </div> - </div> - - <div id="outline-container-org3a44c6a" class="outline-3"> - <h3 id="org3a44c6a"><span class="section-number-3">3.3</span> unknown lowbat</h3> - <div class="outline-text-3" id="text-3-3"> - <p> - Sadly, I wasn't able to test lowbat on machines with more that one - battery. My call is that it will only warn you for the <i>first</i> battery, - but I can't be sure. Try it and tell me! - </p> - </div> - </div> - </div> - - <div id="outline-container-org4bfb234" class="outline-2"> - <h2 id="org4bfb234"><span class="section-number-2">4</span> Links to lowbat</h2> - <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-4"> - <ul class="org-ul"> - <li>GNU/Linux: <a href="https://github.com/JozanLeClerc/lowbat" target="_blank">lowbat's GitHub GNU/Linux repository</a></li> - <li>BSD: <a href="https://github.com/JozanLeClerc/lowbat-bsd" target="_blank">lowbat's GitHub BSD repository</a></li> - </ul> - </div> - </div> -</div> -<?php jo_footer(); ?> |