🪫 Battery

Utility application for Low battery warning in i3wm, It is currently bare-minimum, can be updated as time passes and requirements arise wile using it.

Caution

Use only on i3wm, as it does not have buttons for minimizing / closing on screen (TODO).

Setup

Compile the binary as battery, and put it in /usr/local/bin.

Hence, on running this command.

which battery

you got

/usr/local/bin/battery

Then can go ahead.

Create a new systemd service file.

sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/battery.service

Paste this in it.

[Unit]
Description=Battery Warning

[Service]
Type=simple
User={YOUR_USERNAME}
Environment=DISPLAY=:0
Environment=XAUTHORITY=/home/{YOUR_USERNAME}/.Xauthority
Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/battery

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

start service about new service

sudo systemctl start battery

Run it 24 / 7 all the time by,

sudo systemctl enable battery