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cbatticon — A lightweight and fast battery icon that sits in your system tray. More information: <https://github

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Problem

How to use the cbatticon command: A lightweight and fast battery icon that sits in your system tray. More information: <https://github.com/valr/cbatticon>.

Solution

cbatticon — A lightweight and fast battery icon that sits in your system tray. More information: <https://github.com/valr/cbatticon>.

Show the battery icon in the system tray:

cbatticon

Show the battery icon and set the update interval to 20 seconds:

cbatticon {{[-u|--update-interval]}} {{20}}

List available icon types:

cbatticon {{[-t|--list-icon-types]}}

Show the battery icon with a specific icon type:

cbatticon {{[-i|--icon-type]}} {{standard|notification|symbolic}}

List available power supplies:

cbatticon {{[-p|--list-power-supplies]}}

Show the battery icon for a specific battery:

cbatticon {{BAT0}}

Show the battery icon and which command to execute when the battery level reaches the set critical level:

cbatticon {{[-r|--critical-level]}} {{5}} {{[-c|--command-critical-level]}} {{poweroff}}

Code Snippets

Show the battery icon in the system tray

cbatticon

Show the battery icon and set the update interval to 20 seconds

cbatticon {{[-u|--update-interval]}} {{20}}

List available icon types

cbatticon {{[-t|--list-icon-types]}}

Show the battery icon with a specific icon type

cbatticon {{[-i|--icon-type]}} {{standard|notification|symbolic}}

List available power supplies

cbatticon {{[-p|--list-power-supplies]}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/cbatticon

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