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

brad clawsie 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. -- c/* __o/* <\ * (__ */\ <