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List:       qubes-devel
Subject:    Re: [qubes-devel] Battery level goes wrong in i3
From:       Daniel Moerner <dmoerner () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-02-18 21:24:52
Message-ID: 20170218212452.GD16575 () google
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 07:02:26AM -0800, themasterofdisasters@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I was giving a look at /bin/qubes-i3status and realized that it is supposed 
> to show also battery info in the statusbar along with disk usage, time and 
> so on. This does not happen for me. The reason is that at some point the 
> script looks for /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/energy_now and 
> /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/energy_full to calculate the charge percentage 
> of the battery. Unfortunately, energy_now and energy_full are not present 
> in /sys/class/power_supply/BAT* for me. I tried to edit the script using 
> instead charge_now and charge_full. Doing this, the battery information is 
> correctly displayed when AC is disconnected, but when it's not it balloons 
> up to 137%. This is not a problem of the script itself but of the 
> charge_now parameter, that balloons when AC is connected.
> 
> I don't know if this is a bug or if I'm the only one affected. Using upower 
> the information displayed seems correct.

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2629

It looks like that bug report needs more info from people affected by
the bug, so maybe you could look through it and reply.

> 
> Moreover, suppose I want to edit the style of these notifications, i.e. I 
> want the date (and only the date) to be displayed in bold. Can this be done 
> from the i3 config file? I'm asking because it looks to me that 
> qubes-i3status outputs one string with all the relevant information in it. 
> In this case I suppose I'd have to edit qubes-i3status itself to output the 
> string with the colors I want or, probably better, I should post-process 
> the string with some other script before passing it to the i3 config file.
> Any comment on this would be appreciated.

Yes, you need to edit qubes-i3status. Better than editing the command
itself would probably be to copy it and make your edits with your own
custom command.

Daniel

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