How to add an icon for the battery laptop into TINT2?

Xeratul · 09-10-2012, 02:38 PM

Hi,

I am pleased to use tint2 with openbox. Otherwise, when I do unplug / plug my power supply, I feel missing the information as a little icon into the trayer of tint2.

Would you know how could I get an icon into the tint2 that tells how much left battery and/or that the power is there?

thanks

TobiSGD · 09-10-2012, 04:00 PM

Use a power-manager. xfce4-powermanager is working fine here and did so also back in the days I used Debian/Openbox/tint2.

Xeratul · 09-15-2012, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Use a power-manager. xfce4-powermanager is working fine here and did so also back in the days I used Debian/Openbox/tint2.

well, it is requiring the xfce4

I use openbox, very lightweight wm

TobiSGD · 09-16-2012, 08:53 AM

That you have XFCE installed doesn't mean that you have to use it, you can still use Openbox.
But anyways, I just found the solution in the tint2 documentation (where you should have looked in the first place): http://code.google.com/p/tint2/wiki/Configure#Battery

Xeratul · 09-23-2012, 04:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

That you have XFCE installed doesn't mean that you have to use it, you can still use Openbox.
But anyways, I just found the solution in the tint2 documentation (where you should have looked in the first place): http://code.google.com/p/tint2/wiki/Configure#Battery

it is a pretty heavy solution, isnt it?

kde has a cool creator of icons. I dont remember its name.

Code:

kxxxx kmix kmix --icon ...

Actually it can be done very easily since to create an icon/daemon for the sys tray is basically very simple, and does not need: xfce4 nor kde to be install for such a simple purpose