The battery monitor for GNUstep of the GAP project, has now basic battery information support by accessing the APM/ACPI driver. Advanced cell information supplied by ACPI is still missing. In any case at least I can see how much juice my OpenBSD laptop has left...
(Tested on my Dell Latitude C600, as always with APM and APCI, your luck with other laptops may vary depending on BIOS information and Kernel support)
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apm(8) has provided this information for a while now...
Of course, but some people prefer not to start a console and run apm to check their battery status. That's the point of a Workspace / Desktop Environment, isn't it?
Furthermore the disparity in platform support of OpenBSD was disturbing me.
Agreed. Part of the conky bar at the top of my desktop is battery information provided by apm...
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