On 15:46 Sun 11 Oct , Jens Peter Secher wrote: > The battery plugin works fine in xmobar 0.9.2-1 when running on a Linux > 2.6.26 image. > >
Hi, Sorry for the delayed response, but I've been pretty busy IRL. Yes, the battery plugin works fine with 2.6.26, because Lenny kernels have /proc/acpi/BAT support. The problem is that the /proc API for battery control has been obsoleted by /sys/class/power_supply, altogether with a different (and more simple) format. While under /proc the battery plugin had to use a parser to get the remaining capacity, with /sys things are greatly simplified, as the available information is in a single-value-per-file format. I am working on a fix for properly supporting both, /sys and /proc (with this order of preference), still I need to polish it a bit. Cheers, Apollon P.S.: Under sysfs there seem to be a number of ways a battery can expose its state. So far I've found batteries that expose their state as "energy" (my macbook) or as "charge" (my Dell Latitude E6500 at work), so I guess xmobar should support both sources transparently. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
