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Battery information on Fluxbox

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How can I get my battery info (percentages) on Fluxbox?

I've heard of the gnome-power-manager, and wanted to use that, but there seems to be a problem...

$ gnome-power-manager

gnome-power-manager: command not found

And when I try to install it:

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-power-manager 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

gnome-power-manager is already the newest version.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 141 not upgraded.

I reinstalled it, and still the same situation! Apparently it's installed, but Ubuntu doesn't recognize the command. Also, I don't really like wmbattery, I'd like something that exists next to those applets and other icons (nm-applet, sound, Skype, etc).

I have highlighted the area I would like to have the battery information applet at:

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answered 2 Years ago tiowift · Accepted Answer

After researching this myself recently I settled on batti.

Batti is:

a very lightweight gtk app written in Python

easily installable from source

shows detailed battery information including time remaining when you hover over the indicator

Allows you to suspend/power off by selecting from the menu after a left click.

It's available from here.

Once downloaded and unpacked, simply call

sudo python setup.py install

Add batti to your autostart menu to have it load when you login - in your case just add it to your .fluxbox/startup file.

Some screenshots of batti in action (it's the battery icon, not the lightning symbol - that's jupiter power management applet):

Definitely half empty ;)
Some useful info