rusty-battery-notifier

A simple cli battery percent notifier in Rust. Useful for wm such as i3.

Why Rust?

• "Rust btw."

Installation

Clone the respository:

git clone [email protected]:NicolasGB/rusty-battery-notifier.git

Then build the binary with cargo:

cd rusty-battery-notifier
cargo build --release

Finally copy the generated binary to somewhere you want. For example in your i3 config directory.

cp target/release/rusty-battery-notifier ~/.config/i3/battery-notify

Usage

The binary accepts 3 different flags, you can display them with the --help flag.

Flag	Description	Default
-f	The first threshold to notify at. (%)	15
-s	The second threshold to notify at. (%)	5
-i	The interval to check the battery at. (minutes)	5

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i3

Add the following for your config with your desired values.

exec --no-startup-id ~/.config/i3/battery-notify -f 20 -s 10 -i 3

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT license