battery indicator

[poma]

On 28.09.2014 16:26, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:05:33 +0200 poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 27.09.2014 19:28, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a new Dell Precision M3800 laptop and I am trying to figure out
>>> why the battery indicator does not work (find anything). Any suggestions
>>> as to how I can get this going? batti for instance is installed but
>>> finds nothing. However, there is a battery in the laptop, and does hold
>>> charge for a few hours at least.
>>>
>>> I am running a fully updated Fedora 20 system.
>>>
>>> Any help is of course very appreciated.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Ranjan
>>>
>>
>> See what can you get within /proc/acpi/...
>> i.e. 'acpi' - man 1 acpi, 
>> then how 'batti' collects BATT_INFO.
> 
> Hmmm, this is all I have in /proc/acpi
> 
> ~$ ls
> button/  wakeup
> /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state
> 
> However, 
> 
> ~$ acpi -b
> Battery 0: Discharging, 96%, 31:52:00 remaining
> 
> So, where is this information? 
> 
> Is it in /sys ? If so, where?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ranjan
> 

See what can you get within
/sys/class/power_supply/...

https://code.google.com/p/batti-gtk/
  Batti is a simple battery monitor for the system tray, similar to batterymon. 
  Unlike the latter batti uses *UPower*, and if that is missing DeviceKit.Power, for it's power information. 

http://upower.freedesktop.org/
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Power_Management_Guide/upower.html

$ man 1 upower
...
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