Provided by: wmacpi_2.3-2_amd64 
NAME
wmacpi - Battery status monitor for systems supporting ACPI
NAME
wmacpi-cli - Query battery status for systems supporting ACPI
SYNOPSIS
wmacpi [ -c value ] [ -d display ] [ -m battery no ] [ -s sample rate ] [ -f ] [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -x ] [ -a
samples ] [ -v ] [ -h ]
wmacpi-cli [ -a samples ] [ -V ] [ -v ] ] -b ] [ -r ] [ -h ]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the wmacpi command.
wmacpi is a program that displays the current battery status in a WindowMaker dock app, on systems that
support Intel's Advanced Configuration and Power Interface specification (ACPI).
The program monitors a battery, displaying its current percentage charge via a bar and a numeric value.
It also displays the current power status for the system, the time remaining (calculated based on the
remaining battery capacity and the current rate of power usage), and a scrolling message with some
hopefully useful information.
Clicking on the window cycles through the batteries that the ACPI system knows about.
wmacpi-cli queries the battery status from the command line. It prints the power status, the percentage
remaining for each battery found, and the time remaining if the system is on battery, or the time
remaining for each battery to reach full charge if the batteries are charging.
OPTIONS
wmacpi
-c, --critical=percentage
Set critical low alarm at <percentage>% (default: 10%).
-d, --display=display
Set the X display to open the window on.
-m, --battery=battery number
Set the battery to monitor initially.
-s, --sample-rate=sample rate
Set the rate at which to sample the ACPI data, in number of times per minute. Minimum is 1, ie
once a minute, default is 20, maximum is 600.
-n, --no-blink
Disable blinking power glyph when charging. Note that it still blinks when the battery reports its
capacity state as critical.
-f, --force-capacity-mode
Force the use of capacity mode for calculating time remaining. By defalt wmacpi will use the
reported values of remaining capacity and present rate to calculate the time remaining on battery.
This flag will force the use of the remaining capacity and time samples to calculate the present
rate of drain, and from there the time remaining. Note that this mode of calculation generally
underreports the time remaining. This mode works around certain buggy ACPI BIOSes that fail to
report the current rate.
-x, --cmdline
Run wmacpi in command line mode - this operates identically to wmacpi-cli.
-a, --samples=samples
Average the time remaining over num samples. This greatly improves the accuracy of the reported
time remaining.
-V, --verbosity=num
Increase the verbosity of the program. Setting this to 1 will print extra error information; 2
will produce informational output; 3 will produce copious debugging output.
-v, --version
Print the version information.
-r, --no-scroll
Disable scrolling message.
-h, --help
Display help.
wmacpi-cli
-a num Average the time remaining over num samples. This greatly improves the accuracy of the reported
time remaining.
-V Increase the verbosity of the program. If repeated, the result is the same as setting --verbosity
for wmacpi to the number of repetitions.
-v Print the version information.
-h Display help.
AUTHOR
wmacpi was originally written by Tim Copperfield <timecop@japan.co.jp>, then completely rewritten after 1.34 by Simon Fowler <simon@himi.org>. This manual page was originally written by Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and then updated by Simon Fowler. Last modification by Simon Fowler <simon@himi.org>, 2007-07-13. July 13 2007 WMACPI(1)