laptop power management!

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:45:02 -0200
Ricardo C O Freitas <ricardocastanho at uol.com.br> wrote:

> It just SUSPEND or SHUTDOWN when the battery is on CRITICAL!!! 
> 
> No WARNINGS!!!

There's probably another way, but I use the "gkrellm" monitor to give me
battery warnings ( sudo aptitude install gkrellm ) . Gkrellm has a battery
monitor built in, and in the configuration under "Battery" you can set
commands under Setup --> Alerts. You can also set "low" limits and "low
alarm" limits ( for instance 105, 5% ). 

The commands can be whatever you prefer - I made a little script and put
it in /usr/local/bin , like this:

#!/bin/bash
# Battery alarm sound and warning popup

xmessage "Your battery is at less than 5 percent" &
ogg123 /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Error_1.ogg

exit 0

Of course, you can  use any sound or warning command you prefer. The only
downside to this is that gkrellm must be running - but in my case I always
have it running anyway, because it keeps me informed about what the
machine is doing :) The default skin for gkrellm is kind of ugly, but
there are *lots* of skins available from

http://www.muhri.net/gkrellm/

Peter