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Simple battery charge level watcher with notifications (libnotify)

Requirements

(Build) go1.9.2 (But it should work on earlier versions)
(Build) libnotify-dev
(Run) Font for battery indicator - 3270Medium NF
(Run) libnotify4

Build manually

go get -u github.com/distatus/battery/cmd/battery
make build

Note that PKGBUILD for arch users is still under maintainence.

Usage

Run with key -h for get actual help

$ ./polybar-ab -h
Usage of ./polybar-ab:
  -debug
      Enable debug output to stdout
  -once
      Check state and print once
  -polybar
      Print battery level in polybar format
  -simple
      Print battery level to stdout every check
  -thr int
      Set threshould battery level for notificcations (default 10)
  -version
      Print version info and exit

Polybar

Built in polybar support. Add flag -polybar for get stdout output in polybar format:

Polybar module example

[module/custom-battery]
type = custom/script
exec = polybar-ab -polybar -thr 20
tail = true

TODO

ETA battery life when discharging (sadly I made so many changes in one commit that current branch is not suitable for PR)
Battery health level (based on full/design capacity)
Customizable layout
AUR package