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      xbattery  -  a tool for monitoring the battery status on portables
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COPYRIGHT

      Copyright (C) 1997 by Roland Barmettler <roli@freestone.ch>
          
      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
      it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
      the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
      (at your option) any later version.
            
      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
      GNU General Public License for more details.
                                             
      You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
      along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
      Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
      


GENERAL

Xbattery needs tcl/tk and APM BIOS support to run. If no APM BIOS is
detected, it exits with an error message.



FEATURES

While running, it will be sleeping most of the time. But every ten seconds,
it will check the following :
  - is the computer connected to AC-power ?
  - what's the battery's current capacity ?

Based upon this information, xbattery decides which bitmaps to display.



INSTALLATION

1. Login as root

2. Edit the first line of xbattery if 'wish' is not in '/usr/bin' on your
   system.

3. Check and eventually edit the destination directories in 'install.sh' .

4. Run ./install.sh

5. Start xbattery by typing 'xbattery' :-)



FEEDBACK

If you like this program, or have any suggestions, please contact me via
e-mail :  roli@freestone.ch

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