ACPI and on screen display, was Re: [Xmonad] Re: How to combine xmonad with Ubuntu?

[Xiao-Yong Jin]

brad clawsie <clawsie at fastmail.fm> writes:

> as an obvious aside, its trivial to query the battery status, every 
> modern os should have an acpi query tool
>
> on freebsd: sysctl hw.acpi.battery

Right.  In GNU/Linux, you can always cat the files under
/proc/acpi.

> 
>
> i place my own status indicator into gnu screen
>
> i don't know that much about the advanced features of xmonad as i do
> not use them, but, if there is a simple way to pipe output from a user
> command to some area of the screen (dmenu?), you might find this
> easier than messing with gnome-session

There are tools like dzen or osd_cat in xosd.  In fact, I
use the latter one.
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