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#+TITLE: lowbat - lightweight low battery notifier
* Why lowbat?
I've been using minimalist OS installations for work, personnal computing and playing video games for a while now.
I used [[https://www.archlinux.org/][Arch Linux]], I still use [[https://gentoo.org/][Gentoo Linux]] - which is by far my favorite Linux distribution - as a desktop OS, and now I am using
[[https://www.freebsd.org/][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 [[http://dwm.suckless.org/][dwm]] for a while, and I am now using [[https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm][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 [[https://github.com/tklauser/dash][dash]] ~shell~ 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. These days, I am rewriting it with the *AT&T* syntax.
* Links to lowbat
- GNU/Linux: [[https://github.com/JozanLeClerc/lowbat][lowbat's GitHub GNU/Linux repository]]
- BSD: [[https://github.com/JozanLeClerc/lowbat-bsd][lowbat's GitHub BSD repository]]
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