Battery State Notifications ( Indicator )

A simple script to display a notification using notify-send when your battery is almost full or low. this script will warn you and try to keep your battery level at the range of ~40-80, according to the 40-80 rule for for lithium ion batteries here you find some good articles about this :

1 - CSmonitor Article

2 - Quora Article explaining what is the 40-80 rule

Requirements :

pm-utils

Battery Notification sound

After searching for some alarm sounds, on Github : alarm, :.oga.

I found that a lot of people use alarm-clock-elapsed.oga located at /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/ you can always change the sound file as you wish.

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Installation :

1. Clone this repo :

    git clone https://github.com/SofianeHamlaoui/battery-notifications.git
   

2. Run the following commands :

$ cd battery-notifications && mkdir /usr/bin/batterynotif && cp batterynotif /usr/bin/batterynotif/batterynotif

3. Add this to your i3 config file

exec_always --no-startup-id exec batterynotif

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