[SOLVED] how to make my mint notify me of low battery

zxy654 · 06-19-2020, 04:40 AM

i wanted to know how to enable or create notification soo that i am notified when my battery is low.
i am using linux mint 19.3 on legion y540.

shruggy · 06-19-2020, 06:05 AM

Could you please clarify a bit? You do have a battery status indicator shown, but it doesn't notify you when the charge level is low? Or you don't have any indication at all? And what desktop environment it is? Cinnamon? Does upower -d from the command line show the correct percentage?

ondoho · 06-19-2020, 10:38 AM

Do you have a power manager applet in your panel?
Does it have an option to send notifications as you desire?
Is power management working otherwise?
Does

Code:

notify-send bla

create a notification?

zxy654 · 06-19-2020, 11:55 PM

yes i have the applet in panel it customized it to shows percentage desktop is cinnamon and upower command also works.
but it doesn't give me notification when my battery is below 10% or 20%.

aostv apk · 06-20-2020, 01:58 AM

yes power management app will save it, i too agree with this

ondoho · 06-20-2020, 03:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zxy654

but it doesn't give me notification when my battery is below 10% or 20%.

Open a terminal and test the command I gave in my last post.
What happens?

zxy654 · 06-20-2020, 07:51 AM

yes it gave a notification of bla

ondoho · 06-20-2020, 11:32 AM

OK.
So does the power manager applet have a preferences dialog, and an option to send notifications via libnotify?
If it doesn't then it probably doesn't.
All I can say is, I use xfce4-power-manager, and that definitely sends notifications.

zxy654 · 06-20-2020, 09:54 PM

ondoho · 06-21-2020, 02:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zxy654

okk

Thank you for marking your thread SOLVED, but please share your solution.
Others will benefit.

zxy654 · 06-21-2020, 07:29 PM

solution is to download your recommended power manager