awesome-wm-widgets/_widgets/battery-widget.md

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Battery widget

Simple and easy-to-install widget for Awesome Window Manager.

This widget consists of:

• an icon which shows the battery level:
  
• a pop-up window, which shows up when you hover over an icon:
   Alternatively you can use a tooltip (check the code):
  
• a pop-up warning message which appears on bottom right corner when battery level is less that 15% (you can get the image here):
  

Note that widget uses the Arc icon theme, so it should be installed first under /usr/share/icons/Arc/ folder.

Installation

This widget reads the output of acpi tool.

• install acpi and check the output:

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$ sudo apt-get install acpi
$ acpi
Battery 0: Discharging, 66%, 02:34:06 remaining

Then refer to the installation section of the repo.