Re: To have cpu frequency or/and battery state percentage in my prompt

[Atom Smasher <atom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, giggz wrote:

> > i've got this (in colors, depending on battery state and level of 
> > charge) on FreeBSD 6.2 (acpi). if anyone wants details i'll post...
> >
> > short version: root runs a cron job every minute to get the battery 
> > state; this is written to a file in /tmp; the prompt looks for this 
> > file; if it's there it becomes part of the prompt.
> Yes please :)
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http://smasher.org/tmp/zshrc-and-battery-stuff.tgz

the shell script is run by root every minute. the overhead is too high to 
run it every precmd. if that script is not running (and thus not creating 
the /tmp/battery-status file) ie; on my server, the battery status part of 
the prompt is gracefully ignored.

the battery stuff is most likely freebsd specific (i haven't tested it on 
anything else) but there's a lot of wild-n-crazy stuff in my zshrc that 
can be "borrowed" for any system ;)

lemme know how it works out... and if anyone improves on anything there, 
please share it...


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