bbacpi is simple tool for X that shows some information on the battery of laptops using acpi. Next version will have apm support (already developed, available soon).

bbacpi is NOT maintained anymore ! (last update in 2005)
And so is Blackbox I guess, thus no need to continue here ...

Main features are (all optional):

battery level (loadbar and/or label)
battery lifetime
temperature (loadbar and/or label) (Celcius or Farenheit)
state of the adapter (label or graphic) (graphic need Imlib)
pop-up window when battery level is low
menu (right click): close, refresh, print core ACPI infos, move the window and
switch degrees used for temperature display.

You can download it from the download page.

Screenshots

		These screenshots show a simple version, with only a loadbar indicating battery level, a label showing the lifetime of the battery and the graphical adapter indicator.
		Same bbacpi with default style (-n option).
		Here you can see all info available with bbacpi, in order of appearance: battery level (loadbar) temperature (loadbar), battery (label), temperature (label), battery lifetime (idle stands for no use of the battery) and state of the adapter (plugged or unplugged)
		bbacpi's menu (right click) Farenheit: to change the type of degrees to Farenheit Move (n): to activate the possibility to move the window with left click ACPI: show ACPI core informations Refresh: well, refresh ACPI infos Close: well ... close the program

You can find here a full screenshot with bbacpi in action in the bottom left corner.

News

06/11/2005 Release of version 0.1.5 (see ChangeLog)
01/08/2005 Release of version 0.1.4
21/02/2004 Bug for Fluxbox users, see a way around
18/07/2004 Programming restarted, 1100 download so far
17/07/2004 500 first downloads reached ...
15/07/2004 Release of version 0.1.3

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