From 72e653809f2c372e3f6583edc431fb93b69506f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JozanLeClerc
- A picture of me IRL: + A picture of me IRL at work:
+Please note that I'm not the same Joe as Joseph H. Allen, @@ -67,12 +68,6 @@ Joe's Own Editor. I'm just another random Joe.
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++ I've been using minimalist OS installations for work, personnal computing + and playing video games for a while now. I used Arch Linux, I still use + Gentoo Linux - which is by far my favorite Linux distribution - as a desktop + OS, and now I am using FreeBSD on my workstation. +
+ ++ 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. +
+ ++ As window managers, I used dwm for a while, and I am now using bspwm. 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. +
+ ++ 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 Emacs, + 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 lowbat + to cure this issue. +
+
+ It started as a very short dash
shell (get dash here) script that was
+ working fine but I wanted to experiment a little bit with this. It turned into
+ a C++
program, which is still the case for the GNU/Linux version.
+ Switching to FreeBSD, I exerimented again by turning it into an
+ x64 assembly
program, following the Intel syntax. In that way lowbat is
+ even more lightweight and consumes less battery power.
+ These days, I am rewriting it in the AT&T syntax.
+
+ The principle of lowbat 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%, lowbat checks your battery level every 20 seconds as well as
+ sending you a notification using libnotify
. You can display live
+ notifications on your desktop using dunst
for example, as well as many
+ other I'm sure.
+
+
Figure 1: A notification generated by lowbat, displayed by dunst
+
+ lowbat also has an option to send a custom voice message to the use
+ using espeak
. Very handy if you are not in front of your computer or
+ if you want to bring joy to this dramatic event.
+
+ 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 first battery, + but I can't be sure. Try it and tell me! +
++
- I've been using minimalist OS installations for work, personnal computing - and playing video games for a while now. I used Arch Linux, I still use - Gentoo Linux - which is by far my favorite Linux distribution - as a desktop - OS, and now I am using FreeBSD on my workstation. -
- -- 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. -
- -- As window managers, I used dwm for a while, and I am now using bspwm. 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. -
- -- 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 Emacs, - 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 lowbat - to cure this issue. -
-
- It started as a very short dash
shell (get dash here) script that was
- working fine but I wanted to experiment a little bit with this. It turned into
- a C++
program, which is still the case for the GNU/Linux version.
- Switching to FreeBSD, I exerimented again by turning it into an
- x64 assembly
program, following the Intel syntax. In that way lowbat is
- even more lightweight and consumes less battery power.
- These days, I am rewriting it in the AT&T syntax.
-
- The principle of lowbat 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%, lowbat checks your battery level every 20 seconds as well as
- sending you a notification using libnotify
. You can display live
- notifications on your desktop using dunst
for example, as well as many
- other I'm sure.
-
-
Figure 1: A notification generated by lowbat, displayed by dunst
-
- lowbat also has an option to send a custom voice message to the use
- using espeak
. Very handy if you are not in front of your computer or
- if you want to bring joy to this dramatic event.
-
- 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 first battery, - but I can't be sure. Try it and tell me! -
-