DSBBatmon

About

DSBBatmon is a Qt battery monitor for FreeBSD^®. It displays the battery's current status, capacity, and remaining time when you move the mouse cursor over its tray icon. DSBBatmon can automatically shut down or suspend your system when the battery's capacity falls short of a certain percental value.

Current Version

1.0.6
Release Notes

Localization

The following languages are available:

English
German

Installation

FreeBSD^® ports

The preferred way is to use the FreeBSD^® ports:

# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/dsbbatmon && make install distclean

Installation from source

Dependencies

devel/qt5-buildtools
devel/qt5-core
devel/qt5-linguisttools
devel/qt5-qmake
x11-toolkits/qt5-gui
x11-toolkits/qt5-widgets

Building from release code

# tar xf dsbbatmon-1.0.6.tgz && cd dsbbatmon-1.0.6 && qmake && make
# make install

Building from the latest GitHUB code

# git clone https://github.com/mrclksr/DSBBatmon.git
# git clone https://github.com/mrclksr/dsbcfg.git

# cd DSBBatmon && qmake && make
# make install

Setup

In order to be able to execute shutdown as regular user, you can either use sudo(8) (see below), or you can add your username to the operator group:

# pw groupmod operator -m yourusername

If you want to be able to suspend your system as regular user who is member of the wheel group, you can use sudo(8). Add

%wheel  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/acpiconf *

to /usr/local/etc/sudoers

Screenshots

Battery status

Settings window

Download

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