About

A simple battery monitor ideal for openbox etc. with no need for all the dependancies.

Currently depends on GTK

Planned Features

1. preferences dialog for system tray icon options
2. last theme stored simialr to how Feh or nitrogen work with the --last option
3. cpu-freq monitoring

1. esitmated battery time now included from version 1.1.0
2. notifcations optional from version 1.1.0
3. more themes now added the gnome theme with more to come.

Screenshots

thanks to MarCustomized from Arch linux Forums for the screenshots.

News

Version 1.2.0

Now moved to the Hal framework for battery information as well as remaining time. imporved theme support including charging icons optinal notification support you can now run a command of your choice on critical battery level lots of code clean up. Special thanks to Thomas for all his help with this :)

Version 6.0.0

Fixed a typo.

Version 0.5.9

Added support for Thinkpad laptops Also fixed an issue with the -b option

Version 0.5.8

Changed from using charge_full to charge_design_full to get a true reading of the battery charge

Version 0.5.7

Fixed batterys displaying more than 100% or less than 0% charge.

Version 0.5.6

Fixed the timer so that the icons are now updated. also added a check for the battery charging so that it shows the correct icon.

Version 0.5.4

-b options fixed should now support multiple batterys.

Version 0.5.3

icons now moved to /usr/share/batterymon/

Version 0.5.2

Now checks if the theme exists before it loads

added mutiple battery support, pass the optiob -b BATnumber eg -b bAT1

removed some debug code

Version 0.5.1

Automatic battery detection has now been added batterymon should now pick up your default battery number.

I've also added the ability to change the icon theme please look at the default theme for information on how to name the icons.

you can now also set the default interval by passing ./batterymon.py -i time in milliseconds

Let me know if you make any new icons sets and i will add them in.