Battery

A battery monitor panel plugin for Xfce4, compatible with APM and ACPI, for Linux and *BSD.

• Compile or install xfce4-battery-plugin
• Right-click the panel > Add New Items
• Add the Battery Monitor
• Right-click plugin > Properties for the properties dialog

• Translated in 15 more languages, for a total of 38

• Make the warning messages non modal, fixing bug #3008

• Fix fan and temperature detection, fixing bug #2884

• Showing “No battery, AC online” when no battery is inserted

• Fix compilation on OpenBSD

• Fix compilation on amd64 FreeBSD, fixing bug #3811

• Fix compile issue on linux, fixing bug #3938

• Various other small compile fixes and cleanup

• updates for 1.0.4 (2012/05/14 10:34)
• fix compilation with panel version < 4.9 (2012/05/14 10:33)
• updates for 1.0.3 (2012/05/13 21:31)
• Readd 2px padding so labels are not 'stuck' on the progressbar (2012/05/13 21:27)
• switch from deprecated GtkTooltips api to GtkTooltip (2012/05/08 17:54)

Bugs should be reported to the Xfce bug tracking system.

• [Bug 8594] current_now may contain useful negative rates while discharging
• [Bug 8264] FR: set and show stop_charge_thresh if exists
• [Bug 4673] adjust conditions for showing “Charging”
• [Bug 7594] Change orientation of "Battery Bar"
• [Bug 3476] Battery plugin doesn't support PMU
• [Bug 5058] xfce4 battery monitor bar doesnt show correct height
• [Bug 2948] xfce-battery-plugin: high cpu and mem usage
• [Bug 2990] Battery plugin is not usable with small panels

The normal (and best) way to get this plugin is to use the package manager or port system of your operating system.

If it isn't available there, or if you want a different version, you can download it in source form from http://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-battery-plugin/.

http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-battery-plugin/