Posts: 56
Pacopag
Joined: 31 May 2010
#1
Hi. I was wondering if someone could recommend a non-conky battery monitor for icewm.

I tried ibam (along with the apm and acpi packages), but it doesn't work.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
I run a battery monitor that works in taskbar in both LXDE and Icewm. It came from Arch Linux. My Post with link to the site.

post21217.html#p21217

Just make a blank text file and insert the script. I also showed how I get a .py script to autostart in Fluxbox for a Net Monitoring tool called byteonpanel in my tint2 taskbar.

post22999.html#p22999
Posts: 56
Pacopag
Joined: 31 May 2010
#3
Looks pretty slick. Thanks for your suggestion. What I ended up settling on is to go
Control Center > Edit Icewm Settings
Then in preferences change

TaskBarShowAPMStatus=0 to TaskBarShowAPMStatus=1

Upon next login, there is a cheapo little graphic in the task bar (bottom right) showing the battery charge. But that's really exactly what I was looking for.

Cheers.