topic title: Battery status in antix (Blackbox)
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0day
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#1
Xbattbar alternatives for Blackbox wm?
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
What is wrong with using conky?
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0day
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#3
Conky is not always visible.
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Shay
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#4
I set conky to the right side and I find it plenty visable.
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rokytnji
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#5
0day wrote:Conky is not always visible.
in terminal

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conky &
If you need this


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rust collector
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rust collector
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#6
...but then you open a window, and you can not see it any more.

I just keep it, because I think it looks nice, sort of like a less uselessl wallpaper.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#7
xbattbar is kind of interesting. I've never tried it but its very unobtrusive. I think I'll run it a while and see how it does.
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rokytnji
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#8

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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#9
I forgot about batti. we really need a deb of that in the repo. its perfect for antiX.
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0day
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#10
For Blackbox? Xbattbar?
dolphin_oracle
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dolphin_oracle
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#11
0day wrote:For Blackbox? Xbattbar?
If you want xbattbar why not just use xbattbar.
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0day
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#12
in blackbox there is not a system tray. i install xbattbar but i have this error:
$ xbattbar
This is xbattbar version 1.4.2, Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Suguru Yamaguchi
modified 2009 by Dmitry E. Oboukhov <unera@debian.org>
xbattbar: Can't read proc info: No such file or directory
child process (/usr/lib/xbattbar/xbattbar-check-apm) has returned non-zero code: 1
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rokytnji
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#13
0day wrote:in blackbox there is not a system tray. i install xbattbar but i have this error:
$ xbattbar
This is xbattbar version 1.4.2, Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Suguru Yamaguchi
modified 2009 by Dmitry E. Oboukhov <unera@debian.org>
xbattbar: Can't read proc info: No such file or directory
child process (/usr/lib/xbattbar/xbattbar-check-apm) has returned non-zero code: 1
Just wondering. Do you have a proc folder like mine?

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harry@biker:~
$ cd /
harry@biker:/
$ ls
bin   etc         initrd.img.old  media  proc  sbin     tmp  vmlinuz
boot  home        lib             mnt    root  scripts  usr  vmlinuz.old
dev   initrd.img  lost+found      opt    run   sys      var
harry@biker:/
$ cd proc
harry@biker:/proc
$ ls
1     16    2161  2548  3     4     51      buddyinfo    kallsyms      stat
10    17    2169  2549  30    400   52      bus          kcore         swaps
11    1740  2172  2550  3041  401   53      cgroups      keys          sys
1166  1765  2173  26    31    402   54      cmdline      key-users     sysrq-trigger
117   18    2182  2616  3119  404   55      config.gz    kmsg          sysvipc
119   1882  2183  2617  32    407   56      consoles     kpagecount    thread-self
12    1890  2184  2618  327   408   57      cpuinfo      kpageflags    timer_list
121   19    2185  2620  33    409   60      crypto       loadavg       timer_stats
122   1929  2186  2621  34    4165  62      devices      locks         tty
123   1930  2187  2622  35    4184  64      diskstats    meminfo       uptime
127   1966  22    2624  3670  433   65      dma          misc          version
13    2     2277  2628  3671  442   7       driver       modules       vmallocinfo
137   20    2287  2629  3673  445   71      execdomains  mounts        vmstat
14    2008  23    2632  3674  45    72      fb           mtrr          zoneinfo
1493  2011  2385  2698  37    452   75      filesystems  net
15    2012  24    27    38    46    76      fs           pagetypeinfo
1521  2036  2432  2798  381   47    77      i8k          partitions
1526  2113  2499  28    3900  48    8       interrupts   sched_debug
1528  2116  25    29    392   49    9       iomem        self
1535  2117  2510  2935  393   5     acpi    ioports      slabinfo
156   2138  2540  2936  396   50    asound  irq          softirqs
I still think conky is best with no task bar. But then. I can be a little stubborn myself at times,
You reminded to go ahead and install batti from tar.gz because of this thread using my old instructional posts in that thread I posted. Thanks for that. __{{emoticon}}__

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$ which batti
/usr/local/bin/batti
Edit: D.O.'s post below is more relevant than mine. Because of the apm error
child process (/usr/lib/xbattbar/xbattbar-check-apm) has returned non-zero code: 1
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dolphin_oracle
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#14
xbattbar -c

will use acpi to read the battery status. by default it uses apm, which even most older computers still in use no longer support.
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0day
Joined: 10 Aug 2013
#15
Thanks! It is perfect on hp mini 110 but on hp nx6110:
xbattbar
This is xbattbar version 1.4.2, Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Suguru Yamaguchi
modified 2009 by Dmitry E. Oboukhov <unera@debian.org>
xbattbar: Can't read proc info: No such file or directory
child process (/usr/lib/xbattbar/xbattbar-check-apm) has returned non-zero code: 1

xbattbar -c
This is xbattbar version 1.4.2, Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Suguru Yamaguchi
modified 2009 by Dmitry E. Oboukhov <unera@debian.org>
Can't exec"acpi": File o directory non esistente at /usr/lib/xbattbar/xbattbar-check-acpi line 26.
Can not start acpi: File o directory non esistente
child process (/usr/lib/xbattbar/xbattbar-check-acpi) has returned non-zero code: 2
Solved: apt-get install acpi....then: xbattbar -c right
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