On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:38:01PM +0100, Jona Joachim wrote:
>Hi!
>On 16 October Dmitri Alenitchev submitted the xmobar port:
>http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.ports/26246
>
>It has not been committed yet.
>One of the major drawbacks was that the monitoring modules make
>extensive use of procfs, so they obviously won't work on OpenBSD.
>I rewrote the battery module so that it uses sysctl.
>I also updated the example config file to show the usage of the
>modified battery module.
>
>An updated tarball is attached.
>I only tested it on a ThinkPad T60 running 4.2-amd64, so it would be
>nice to see if it works right for other people.

Works fine on amd64 with recent acpi changes :]

>
>Please note that some batteries report their remaining charge in Ah
>while others report in Wh. You will have to include this information in
>your xmobar config file by specifying either "watthour" or "amphour".
>You can find out what unit your system uses by running `sysctl
>hw.sensors.acpibat0`.
>
>Oh and please keep in mind that I'm still a beginner in Haskell, so I
>hope the lambda knights among you won't shoot me if I wrote some poor
>style code.
>
>Best regards,
>Jona
>
>
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